RSSSkype Hit by Major Outage, Downloads Disabled
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 16, 2007, 11:05 AM
Skype suffered a major outage early Thursday morning in what is being characterized as a "software issue" related to users logging into the service. Engineers say it will take them 12 to 24 hours to fix the problem, and in the meantime have disabled all downloads of the Skype client.
The company, owned by eBay, has not specified what exactly caused the outage, but Skype has a strong history of reliability. It's possible there was some database corruption related to user logins, which could explain the lengthy time needed to repair the issue.
NSA
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http://heartbeat.skype.com/
"Where we are at 1100 GMT
By My status Villu Arak on August 17, 2007.
Hello all,
As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here’s the latest on the sign-on problem.
We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day.
An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were yesterday.
Finally, we’d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still hearing. Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of our web-based payment services nor any form of attack was related to the current sign-on issues in any way.
We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for hanging tight."
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its technology its bound to fail thats what keep IT GUYS in business :)
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I knew it wouldn't take long for e-bay to phuck things up:-) LMAO
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Yeah, I still can't sign in right now, which stinks because, other than e-mail, skype is my only method of contact for some people I work with.
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UPDATE:
I let Skype sit all day trying to connect, and it *just* got connected about 1 minute ago.
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not sure if it is related but as of couple days already mine just refuses to start and kicks out "don't panic" message from skype.exe . uninstall/reinstall does not help. kinda vierd since i just reimaged my machine about 2 weeks ago...
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Worked for me just fine this morning, although sputtered a bit before it got going.
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I have not been able to log in for the last 12 hours
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Other than hurricanes, I can't recall a single major phone outage in my area in 44 years. Localized, sure. Car wrecks, tree limbs, lightning strikes. But entire area or citywide? Never. It seems service outages on the Internet are more common than that and rarely due to natural disasters. Mostly software or human error or DoS attacks. As much I dislike cable and telco providers, they seem to be way ahead on reliability of service.
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