Skype has been offline almost for the whole day now.....even the website is down. I wonder what is going on there....but appears to be really expensive - this downtime

Just think of all those companies who rely on Skype to communicate with other companies or that use it for phone calls .......

Can't believe it has been offline for so long....

The web site appears to be up again, but Skype still going 'connecting.......' That's the first time I've ever known Skype to be done at all (barring a few local connection problems)

According to a magazine article I read recently, there have been a few big companies switch to VOIP, quite a lot to Skype, you can just imagine what chaos there would be if a business lost all there VOIP communications for a day (or more!). I wonder if these businesses that switch to VOIP keep their 'traditional' telephony as well as VOIP, in case of things like this?

Has anyone got Skype installed on a Linux machine? Wonder whether it works there..then it is really a Microsoft issue

Yesterday Skype 1.4 Beta for Linux was working for me under Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn distro 7.04) but can't test it today as am away from that machine. The mobile version of Skype on my PDA connected yesterday too, but couldnt use it yesterday or today from my pc or laptop.

It mus definitely be something outside the scope of Skype...otherwise it would not take longer then some hours before problems should be solved.

There's an interesting take on the problem here :

Skype Story

I did like this sentence :

"Venture capitalists who have been funding (peer-to-peer) services should take this as an early warning on the fragility of the whole (peer-to-peer) ecosystem, where a small glitch can cause widespread problems," Malik wrote Thursday on his blog GigaOm.[/url]

Being said as if a small glitch in a client - server model system wouldn't have the same effect. This isn't a problem with the peer-to-peer idealism at all. It is a problem with the underlying infrastructure over which skype authenticates. This part of skype is NOT peer to peer. I wish these so called technology 'bloggers' knew what the hell they were talking about. The authentication system is essentially client-server...
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