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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by pmart123 »

walrus01 wrote: post #222
LeoPanthera wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is an AS

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=bgp...

I only wish I could currently watch a video link to that instead...

I guess it goes to show how much we take connectivity and uptime for granted these days.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by trumped »

Thaxll wrote: post #200
sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.

I have seen gmail go down many times years ago but I haven't used the web interface for years so I don't know how often it happens nowadays...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by aviv »

dabei wrote: post #327
aviv wrote: post #317

This seems to be GCP related. I know the status page is all green currently... but we have a lot of services using GCP products and some are failing and showing increased latency. Pubsub failures as well.

YouTube is not built on GCP.

Why would you assume this previously known tidbit to be true for the rest of Youtube's life?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by p0rkbelly »

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?

There was a GCP Global network outage maybe a year or two ago, where their canary of a canary (Yo dawg, I heard you like bugs, so I I put a but inside of your bug) caused a cascading network failure.

It was a bad config push -- brownouts fighting with brown outs. Consistency issues. I bet this is happening.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by _jal »

amingilani wrote: post #206
sarim wrote: post #58

I 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... […

I have a new hero.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] »

ams6110 wrote: post #337
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…

AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.

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