In my most recent column I pointed out that Skype's explanation of the reboot outage did not say that the bug had in fact been fixed. I took that as implying that it hadn't.
Now it says that it has. In a second blog on the subject, Skype is explicit:
Yes, the bug has been squashed. The parameters of the P2P network have been tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that we've tuned Skype's P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and core size changes similar to those that occurred on August 16. We'd like to reassure our users across the globe that we've done everything we need to do to make sure this doesn't happen again. We've already introduced a number of improvements to our software to ensure our users will not be similarly affected—in the unlikely possibility of this combination of events recurring.It's somewhat surprising that they didn't say this in the first blog.
