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Ask HN: YouTube down?
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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#202Are 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.
> I put $20 on DDoS I'd take you on that, except I have no anonymized payment account. Otherwise, I'd bet $100 that it's not. Only Google has the scale to DDoS Google.
Hey! Conspiracy time!
Maybe it's an inner splinter rogue group within Google that's been secretly hating on a Youtube team and decided to get the ultimate payback for like... not inviting them to a lan party...or something...aliens ate all the cheesey poofs.
Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#203Are 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.
I bet it’s a core network issue since it went down globally at the same time.. they deploy new binaries slowly so that shouldn’t cause it. Maybe some config was changed without testing?
Agreed. I'd suspect it'll be something similar to Google's 2016 GCP outage:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007
(I'm thinking something like router firmware or BGP).
Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#204We should all develop a song to remember and never forget this day.
A long long time ago, I can still remember how those videos used to make me smile... (Take it)
But October made me quiver, with every UDP packet I'd deliver- bad JS on the door-step, the DOM couldn't take one more step
Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#205Are 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.
Fat fingered a script would be my guess. Not the first time that caused a 'big4' site to go down.
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#206I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)
I am proud to say that in 2008 my country knocked this puny website off the interwebs in a bid to censor it within the country. They accidentally hijacked the global IP addresses[0]
I am also proud to say that my country left the domain for their original Internet Exchange Point[1] unregistered. Guess who scooped it up?
PS. My country is Pakistan.
[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offli...
[1]: https://pie.net.pk
Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#207Medium 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…
What is an AS
Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?
#208I wonder how much each minute of downtime is worth in revenue numbers?
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is any of this info publicly available anywhere?
IX charts are public in Chile by law. Everything looks well except the Telefonica (TIWS) international trunk [1]. It started dropping all traffic at the same time. [1] http://pit.grupogtd.com/default.php?id=1
Que bacan weon! Estoy en viña ahorita. Sabes por que Movistar es muy lento com LTE aca?
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#210ripe yt nothing loads