OT......Skype is down since 4.30. am this morning *globally*(apparently?

[Bod]

Makes one wonder if it is the 'IS' terrorists sabataging it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah. Yes I noticed I couldn't log on

Cant see any terrorists shagging it, frankly. Microsoft are fully capable of doing that all by themselves...

[Bod]

Maybe, but I've never known it going down for the whole world.

[The Natural Philosopher]

oddly enough the first site to report it was 'Russia Today'

Seems the database is off line.

[Bod]

Twitter post >>>>>"There?s no sign of a Skype status update yet on the official Skype Support Twitter page"

Very strange.

[Brian-Gaff]

No its Microsoft who could not run a pissup in a brewery. Brian

[Brian-Gaff]

I wondered what that cable was in my back garden... Brian

[Jonno]

Brian-Gaff scribbled

Imagine the mess if the M$ cloud went t*ts up for all the millions of idiot businesses using it.

[Huge]

Ditto AWS.

[Tim Watts]

I have - rather soon after MS bought it IIRC.

Remember the Hotmail shenanigans when MS bought that?

[Huge]

IIRC, all to do with migrating the service onto MS's toy operating system.

[Bod]

Skype's been down for eight & a half hours so. Must be pretty serious. I can imagine companies than use it for their business tearing their hair out by now :-)

[jgh]

I thought the whole point of Skype was that my PeeCee connected via the internet to my chatee's PeeCee. So this means that Skype operates like POTS, you connect to a Skype exchange which connects to your chatee's Skype exchange which connects to your chatee.

jgh

[Bod]

[Tim Watts]

That's happened...

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Jonno escribió:

It does on a regular basis.

Plus loads more.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Huge escribió:

Which went mammaries uppermost in a big way only yesterday. Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMBD all offline.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not exactly. You need a database that 'knows' where the users are in terms of IP addresses.

Once you know that, then a direct connection is possible, but the skype clients are typically behind a NAT firewall router too, so you have to play some games with direct IP connections.

[Andy Burns]

Yesterday, for one.

[The Natural Philosopher]

they are up ok now tho

Skype aint..