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Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened

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Re: Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened

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Post by pyre »

cookiecaper wrote: post #40
pyre wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be more useful then the current state of affairs. With a proprietary blob to talk to, it would be possible for people to do things like write text-based clients in curses, or the suggested 'server' version of Skype specifically for running as a super node or relay node.

We don't know how flexible the blob they give us will be. Since the current interface has no provision for toggling or dealing with one's status on the P2P network, there's no reason to believe that that will necessarily be a feature that the blob exports; Skype may still keep the network communications totally opaque, all handled behind the black magic of the blob, which would simply export the basics like contact l…

Not necessarily. We already know that things like supernodes are selected based on network conditions. The 'server' interface could just be a reduction of dependencies so that you could run it as a daemon process on a server. The Skype Network would then select it as a super node so long as the server had the right conditions (no NAT, no firewall, fat pipe, etc)

It presumably would still need a Skype login, but that could also be used to control it. Accepting commands from a white-list of Skype Ids.

Re: Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened

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Post by cookiecaper »

anon114 wrote: post #23
cookiecaper wrote: post #7

Maybe this will cause Skype to take Linux and Mac more seriously. If you've used the Windows version, you know almost all development has occurred there, whereas the Mac and Linux clients have looked the same for the last four or five years. The Linux client did have a major version bump about a year ago iirc, and that brought some needed features, but it was mostly the same. Also, hopefully this will teach Skype to…

Or, maybe this will cause users to take Jabber/XMPP more seriously and stop using proprietary technology for corporate IM. I've worked at places where management is completely gaga over Skype and would push me to support it despite the fact that I had no ability to block spam, troubleshoot messaging problems or integrate our IM system into existing Asterisk, SSO, monitoring and collaboration solutions. IMHO, Openfire…

When an XMPP solution that's as easy to use as Skype comes out I'll be all for this. As it stands, even Google's video chat is much more difficult for end-users to install and use.

I used to use Ekiga for video chat and it was much shoddier than Skype, constantly dropping calls, refusing to release the audio or video device so that we couldn't call back, and other serious bugs. Skype "just works".

I really hope that someone comes up with a decent free software competitor, but it doesn't really exist at this point. The fastest way to solve this problem would be for Skype to become free software.

Re: Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened

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Post by eps »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #11
cookiecaper wrote: post #7

Maybe this will cause Skype to take Linux and Mac more seriously. If you've used the Windows version, you know almost all development has occurred there, whereas the Mac and Linux clients have looked the same for the last four or five years. The Linux client did have a major version bump about a year ago iirc, and that brought some needed features, but it was mostly the same. Also, hopefully this will teach Skype to…

Agreed, I've always thought that Skype would one day roll out an enterprise type "Skype Server" that would explicitly make performance better within corporations.

Why would they want to fragment the largest botnet in history? :)
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