Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Tango Down

L'expression est la mode. La victime du jour: Skype.

Sur le blog de Skype, on peut lire:

Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.

Je ne peux m'empecher de repenser aux presentations de Serpi, Phil et compagnie sur le sujet, evoquant la possibilite de DoS-er le reseau Skype en envoyant aux super-noeuds la commande de desactivation.

Maintenant les techniciens de Skype s'activent a creer de nouveaux mega super-noeuds pour retablir le reseau. C'est moche.

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