An update: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/the_microsoft_connection_explained.html
Still too vague to really learn anything specific about how to prevent something like this from happening anywhere outside of Skype, but it does try to address #2 of zooko's questions (and very vaguely #3). If I'm not misinterpreting, it does sound now like this was an issue of too many supernodes going away at once. Is that what he is referring to when he says "Skype's peer-to-peer core?" From later use of "a combination of high load and supernode rebooting" it seems to be. I'm curious if Skype's supernode population is more heavily skewed towards Windows boxes than the general Skype population? Does Skype not have very many mac/linux users, or are mac/linux users less likely to be chosen as supernodes? And what in the world is referred to by "P2P network resource allocation algorithm Skype used?" Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
