Another day without Skype

Executives at Skype, a division of eBay that is based in Luxembourg, said its engineers worked throughout the day to bring the service back online. But they said that while they had pinpointed the source of the problem, they still did not know why it had resulted in a network failure, and they could not ensure that the service would be running smoothly again by Friday.

“There is a chance this could go on beyond tomorrow, but it’s our hope that it’s going to be resolved,” Kurt Sauer, Skype’s chief security officer, said. “What happened today was caused by a unique set of events, the genesis of which is not entirely understood.”

As Europe has woken up to a
new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here’s the latest on
the sign-on problem.
 
We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day.
 
An
encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re
not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were
yesterday.
 
Finally, we’d like to dispel a couple of theories
that we are still hearing. Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of
our web-based payment services nor any form of attack was related to
the current sign-on issues in any way.
 
We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for hanging tight.

Some are theorizing that a series of Microsoft updates released yesterday are behind the P2P network failure

NYA!! My girlfriend is 12,000 miles away and gettin' upset: call in Inspector Gadget to sort this asap, please!

The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen. This problem occurred because of a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software. This controls the interaction between the user’s own Skype client and the rest of the Skype network.