On 8/21/07, Michael Slavitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A massive reset of PC's with supernodes leaving in an unknown state > would be similar a DDoS attack on their auth servers as their > authentication and supernode delegation algorithm would be > overwhelmed, especially if the retry/recovery mechanism for existing > sessions created a positive feedback loop.
Skype's talk of a "flood of requests" and a "perfect storm" and "high usage load" certainly seems to point more at a centralized (authentication) or semi-centralized (supernodes) resource failure than it does at edge p2p nodes, regardless of whether the cause was an external DDoS or an internal, self-inflicted one. Alen If Skype were more open about what exactly went on, I could resist this urge to continue conjecturing. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
