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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Yeah I'm getting the following error: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

https://oopsiewhoopsie.com/ (Warning loud / NSFW)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#126
post #107

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

The janitor needed that socket to plug the vacuum

Experimental Roomba built up a static charge and fried something important.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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post #91

Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or…

Is any of this info publicly available anywhere?

A lot of them have stuff like total traffic over time under the statistics link.

https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"And why were you not offline?" (continuing song lyrics i think we're making)

We should set it to "American Pie" and make sure to start off mentioning how we were all still mourning the loss of Paul Allen when this happened.

Let's make sure to make this the next stanza ;)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#130

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

NSA was installing a wire tap and sliced some fiber.
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