Skype is Down Today

The massive worldwide outage of Skype was repeated today. The last time Skype outage is wayback 2007. The said outage lasted almost a day that was cause by a DNS failure. I've been using skpye since last 6 months and I'm having a good feedback on Skype services such as Video calls, chat, sending file etc. Many users affected specially it Christmas time. I was able to login, but my buddy list looks mostly offline, which is very unusual.

SKYPE ANNOUNCED:

"Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate.
Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.

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.

What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal. This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal."

Stay tuned to @skype on Twitter for the latest updates on the situation – and many thanks for your continued patience in the meantime."

Hope Skype can resolve this outage and up soon.