Ask HN: YouTube down?

Post by franciskim » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:18 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?

Post by mindcrime » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:19 AM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #227

corodra wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's crab people for sure.

Post by g051051 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:20 AM UTC

the_clarence wrote: post #294

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…

IX?

Post by blackrobot » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:20 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #207

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…

What is an AS

    ...an autonomous system *(AS)* is a collection of
    connected Internet Protocol *(IP)* routing prefixes
    under the control of one or more network operators on
    behalf of a single administrative entity or domain that
    presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the
    Internet.

Post by corodra » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:21 AM UTC

SteveNuts wrote: post #293

trevyn wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My vote: Bad configuration got pushed.

I thought they had all sorts of crazy canary deployment processes that will automatically stop/rollback the deployment if the failure metrics start increasing?