Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by corodra » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

Escapado wrote: post #115

corodra wrote: post #102

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.

Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?

Would it involve hitting whoever/whatever handles their DNS like that one attack about a year ago?

FYI: I legit am retarded to such things and my networking knowledge is...meh. So please correct me.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by Thaxll » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

suls wrote: post #91

walrus01 wrote: post #69

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?

https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by sandov » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #68

Can Netflix handle the extra load? Haha.

And Twitch.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

RandomGuyDTB wrote: post #86

DoreenMichele wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"On HN, of course."

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