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Re: YouTube is down

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Post by nameless_noob » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

Back up now.

Re: YouTube is down

#22

Post by swansw » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

I don't think the APIs are down. http://fixyt.com (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by EB5 » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

It´s not down completely. Sometimes it loads.

Seems to me like their DB is not reachable from all their webservers..

Or perhaps they did push a fix that has not reached all fo their webservers yet.

EDIT: now (few minutes later)it loads just fine, seems the fix had to be pushed to all servers and thats why it sometimes loads and sometimes it doesn`t

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by gygygy » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

Came across this same issue a few days ago, but it lasted for just 3-4 minutes.

Re: YouTube is down

#25

Post by anonymfus » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:52 PM UTC

Metrotube still works, as probably other clients not based on web version.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by kroo » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:58 PM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #4

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

It looks like it's a url-safe base64 encoding of an encrypted blob (perhaps a stack trace). They're using '-', and '_' instead of '/' and '+'. Replace these characters and base64 will succeed, leaving with ~3k bytes randomly distributed between 0x00 and 0xFF.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 11:07 PM UTC

gone are the days when you could send it /quitquitquit sadly.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by yeukhon » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 11:08 PM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #4

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

I am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by scott_karana » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #28

seanp2k2 wrote: post #4

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

I am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.

I believe it's a pre-Google legacy. I seem to remember seeing it a few times back in the day.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by yeukhon » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

scott_karana wrote: post #29

yeukhon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.

I believe it's a pre-Google legacy. I seem to remember seeing it a few times back in the day.

Interesting. If this is the case, then there must be a good reason not to stop rendering that. I am also curious if each server has its own private key or not. Anyhow, thanks for the info.