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Re: YouTube Down

#101
I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying.

Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.

Re: YouTube Down

#104
post #40

5 bucks on BGP

Networking would be a likely cause.

Usually this type of site-wide outage is always related to networking.

BGP, not sure. Google practices SDN. So their software error can rekt a large chunk of infrastructure...

Re: YouTube Down

#105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So mine both restored working at the same exact second. speedtest and youtube. Just saying...

Oh I’ve had my internet troubles fixed several times by going to that domain. Saw one guy write a script to ping it every 15 minutes. Now to be fair, When in a meeting, I’ve al had to track down the kids and all devises that could possibly access YouTube. After a really bad hour of Zoom; I leaned that you can watch YouTube on the switch. Clever kids. I locked away a 10 year kindle just out of principe for that one.

You can firewall their devices. I used to do that to my dad's cloud-based cameras back when I was in highschool. He never figured it out. Always assumed it was the ISP's fault.

Re: YouTube Down

#106

I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying. Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.

Yeah YouTube music works for me but no videos will play

Re: YouTube Down

#108

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

Wouldn't that create an incentive for third parties to block Downdetector, negating its value?

Re: YouTube Down

#109
Look at the charts on downdetector homepage - multiple major sites all got hit by something simultaneously and are all trending back down almost identically.
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