Is YouTube (Partly) Down?
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Is YouTube (Partly) Down?
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Re: Is YouTube (Partly) Down?
#2I can browse, it plays ads, but no actual video starts playing.
Edit: A few minutes after finally asking, it works again...
Re: Is YouTube (Partly) Down?
#3I can browse, it plays ads, but no actual video starts playing. Edit: A few minutes after finally asking, it works again...
FWIW not sure if this is applicable to you but if someone behind your public IP address happen to be using a program to download videos from them such as yt-dlp without enabling rate limits in the application then they will eventually start responding to your requests with TCP reset packets. I have a theory that a factor in their decision is the PTR reverse DNS record based on my testing. My work around was to do the automated downloading from random throw-away VM's in the cloud in a GNU screen session with rate limits and delays, then rsync what I want to keep when it finishes. Otherwise it could be just a network glitch.
Re: Is YouTube (Partly) Down?
#4I can browse, it plays ads, but no actual video starts playing. Edit: A few minutes after finally asking, it works again...
FWIW not sure if this is applicable to you but if someone behind your public IP address happen to be using a program to download videos from them such as yt-dlp without enabling rate limits in the application then they will eventually start responding to your requests with TCP reset packets. I have a theory that a factor in their decision is the PTR reverse DNS record based on my testing. My work around was to do the…
Thanks for you suggestion and it is good to know this, but in my case I can rule out the cause.
There is a spike in downdetector for YouTube at the time of my comment, so it must have been a larger glitch somewhere...