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Re: Youtube is down

#11

Post by tomerico » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 11:44 AM UTC

Could it be related to the current issue with China?

Re: Youtube is down

#12

Post by hackermom » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 11:48 AM UTC

Good grief! This is big... I mean, where will I now get my daily fix of dancing cats and piano playing dogs?

Jokes aside, it is a little strange.

Re: Youtube is down

#13

Post by sern » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 11:55 AM UTC

godDLL wrote: post #5

pierrefar wrote: post #2

Going directly to a video page works though. Load balancer issues?

Yeah, same as with Amazon.com that one time. Content-Length:62 Content-Type:text/html Date:Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:15:09 GMT Server:NS_6.1 X-Xss-Protection:0 Http/1.1 Service Unavailable And here is a way to check up on YouTube http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.youtube.com/ EDIT: there is also an occasional 503 coming through, so it's probably a load balancer mis-configuration issue. They will be able roll it…

"NS" in the Server header, by the way, stands for NetScaler.

Re: Youtube is down

#14

Post by denharsh » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 11:55 AM UTC

Yah was watching streaming video and din realize site is down....

Re: Youtube is down

#15

Post by learnalist » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:02 PM UTC

Im surprised no one has put forward:

"revenge by china" slightly more on topic im struggling to belive they only have one load balancer for the whole of YouTube.

Re: Youtube is down

#16

Post by vladocar » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:08 PM UTC

I'm not sure but I think yesterday and today all network is suffering from DNS issues.

But definitely strange, yesterday Google Analitics,reddit,Wikipedia(EN) were down,and twitter and gmail behaved strangely. Maybe was just the bad day for the network :)

Re: Youtube is down

#17

Post by swombat » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:09 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #8

Do we really need these X is down posts? It's a pity that Youtube is down but it's not going to affect my day enormously and until there are technical details of why it was down it's rather tedious.

it's not going to effect my day

Sorry to be a pedant, but: affect

Thumb rule: when used as a verb, it's pretty much always "affect"; when a noun, "effect".

Re: Youtube is down

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:15 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #17

jgrahamc wrote: post #8

Do we really need these X is down posts? It's a pity that Youtube is down but it's not going to affect my day enormously and until there are technical details of why it was down it's rather tedious.

it's not going to effect my day Sorry to be a pedant, but: affect Thumb rule: when used as a verb, it's pretty much always "affect"; when a noun, "effect".

Alternately, John might actually mean he doesn't think YouTube being down will cause his day to happen enormously. :)

Re: Youtube is down

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Post by bruceboughton » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:15 PM UTC

learnalist wrote: post #15

Im surprised no one has put forward: "revenge by china" slightly more on topic im struggling to belive they only have one load balancer for the whole of YouTube.

Who said they only have one load balancer?

Re: Youtube is down

#20

Post by hartror » Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 12:16 PM UTC

Wow still dead wonder how much money this costs them? Guess it would be offpeak time right now which would be something I'd be thankful for, which is why we're shutdown and am running maintenance right now.