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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by girst »

doing a `curl -v https://redirector.googlevideo.com` (the host you'll connect to before getting redirected to the actual mp4/m4a streams) opens a tls connection (and gives a cert), but it then hangs for two minutes, before returning a 502.

i'd wager some database storing info about the streams crashed :^D (given that it also crashes on /, it's more likely something else)

Re: YouTube Down

#67

Post by drtz »

ATsch wrote: post #49
jedberg wrote: post #12

So is speedtest.net. I wonder how they're related (if at all)

It looks like it's a CDN issue, which might affect many things using GCP for large files.

The Play Store also seems to be having problems downloading APKs. CDN issues sounds pretty likely.

Re: YouTube Down

#68

Post by ATsch »

toast0 wrote: post #51
ATsch wrote: post #40

5 bucks on BGP

Possibly, but the pages and ads load fine, just the videos are broken, so I'd take your bet (idiomatically; I'm not a betting person).

That makes sense to me, because dynamic pages are not served from a CDN, which do a lot more BGP and routing trickery that could go wrong.

Re: YouTube Down

#69

Post by hetspookjee »

augusto-moura wrote: post #41
mr_toad wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.

The problem is that most of my subscribed channels are not in Vimeo, so I lose a lot of meaningful content

I wonder why syndication is not more of a thing. Surely there must be a simple tool to upload your video to multiple platforms at once?
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