YouTube Is Down 152
A number of readers have noted that YouTube is currently giving back 400 and 502 http errors, and has apparently been doing so for an hour or more. I suggest you use this window of opportunity to get something done: the dancing kitties will still be there when you're done.
Well now... (Score:5, Funny)
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Except for with all the viacom employees that are trying to upload their stuff
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And except for us, reading Slashdot.
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five nines ? (Score:2)
Hardware: Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter on Thursday March 25, @07:57AM [slashdot.org]
ah well, doesn't matter if I have electricty, youtube is down!
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Now, there will be more productivity across United States Workforce on Thursday!
http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/12/139/2004636948321281979_rs.jpg
Works here (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Works here (Score:5, Informative)
And in the UK.
So, basically, a single node in a CDN has gone down. Huge story, and /. has done well to be the first to (apparently) break it. 'Grats, Taco. ;)
It's back up, it was down from everywhere ... (Score:2, Informative)
I checked via ssh -D into four of my machines, two in the US, one in Europe and another in India.
Now, I didn't check from the HK boxes, but I assume it was down for real.
And btw, It's back up now for everyone.
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And working here in the Netherlands :)
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With the huge number of websites out there, and with Wikipedia's outage yesterday... That "service unavailable" is a trending topic, proves little.
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Considered that "Service Unavailable" is one of today's "tending topics" on Twitter, I'd say that's a bit more than one CDN node.
Maybe there's a sub-culture on Twitter who try to see if anal sex is offered by their local escort service then post their findings?
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Also in Southeast US (North Carolina) and it works fine for me.
Re:Works here (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, working here from the midwest. Taco knows how the internet works. Why, exactly, do we have a "major site is down" story with no links? A major data center or backbone going down might be news. What we seem to have here is an unconfirmed and unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that someone, somewhere on the internet might have lost access to youtube?
I think more coffee is required to process this story.
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Here [youtube.com] is a link to the story. However I think it's already slashdotted.
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Why, exactly, do we have a "major site is down" story with no links?
Yeah, they should totally link to YouTube's response to it. Oh wait...
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What we *have* here, is a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE!
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Anyway, I was watching something when it happened, but noticed nothing except not being able to start the next video in the playlist, something must have happened to the front end servers.
Re:Works here, in France - Cote Azur also (Score:2)
dito
Works fine from Canada (Score:2)
Seems fine to me...
Re:Works fine from Canada (Score:4, Funny)
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Haha that would make sense.
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But here I sit reading Slashdot... (Score:1)
Dancing kitties will still be there? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dancing kitties will still be there? (Score:4, Funny)
U meen I cn haz Kntuky Fryed Kittah?
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Because we know that no one can stop kitties [youtube.com] from dancing [youtube.com], that's how.
OMFG NO !!! (Score:5, Funny)
now i'll have to actually WORK ???
this is cruel and unusual punishment. call the human rights conuncil at UN, make them send a strongly worded letter to youtube, this can't go on !!!
Re:OMFG NO !!! (Score:5, Funny)
now i'll have to actually WORK ???
Not if you just carry on reading /.
Thanks... (Score:5, Funny)
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I don't know, but my blog was down a while ago. Can I get coverage?
I made up the blog part.
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Slow news day? (Score:1)
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Cricket/IPL Effect? (Score:5, Interesting)
Today Bangalore is playing in the IPL today and youtube is supposed to be streaming the match live [google.com]. The timing of this outage is almost coincidental. And not all of youtube is down, for instance, I clicked through to this video [youtube.com] which seems to be working.
Add to that, the fact that Airtel (my isp) has lifted the bandwidth limits for this particular Youtube channel (they have a local stream point, I guess ... it doesn't cost them upstream). [airtel.in]
So as soon as youtube is down, I head a groan all around my floor and people leaving their desks to go watch the match in the cafeteria. One of those odd situations when youtube going down probably caused a drop in productivity ;)
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Baseball is only in USA and Canada? I guess Japan, South Korea, Mexico, all of central America, and most Caribbean islands aren't really countries.
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No, because then he'd be asking Youtube for an RCA to explain the SLA. I'd add more TLA's, but I don't work for IBM any more and I don't have access to "whatis".
google reader is also down for me (Score:2)
here in ohio.
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thanks for the helpful suggestion!
Missing Link (Score:2, Funny)
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And anyway, a link to YouTube would only have confirmed that Slashdot is late, because clicking the link to YouTube would have worked, and the headline says it's down!
Netherlands (Score:2)
MPAA/RIAA involved? (Score:2)
So the MPAA/RIAA finally forced YouTube to preemptively address all remaining possible copyright issues?
If they had it their way, they would yank the plug on the entire internet.
Educational impact (Score:2)
Shroedinger's dancing kitties (Score:2)
Anyone else notice the slow responses from Google? (Score:4, Interesting)
I've noticed lots of slow responses or no responses from Google servers lately. (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Search, Youtube, Google Maps, etc) It doesn't happen all the time, but many many times throughout the day. Has anyone else noticed this? If so, is anything known about it? DOS, etc?
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I've noticed that too in the last 2 weeks.
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welcome to the cloud. for the last few months it has taken me 10 seconds just to delete a hundred emails at a time from gmail. you get your .000000001% of computing time, say thank you and go on your way.
this is why i like my fat clients like the iphone. i can download and view everything on my client and not worry about if it's raining or snowing in the cloud
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Same thing here (Morocco) for nearly two weeks now, all Google sites are affected (google.com, Gmail, Blogspot, Youtube, etc.), even doubleclick.net and the domain serving adwords (don't remember the exact) are afected too, which has the effect of slowing the numerous sites using them. I have noticed that this has coincided with a new surge of conflics between Google and the chinese governement, I wonder if this a a massive DDOS attack as a retaliation by pro-governement Chinese hackers, this has already ha
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I have experienced this problem too, since I have associated my Google with my Youtube account, to avoid it, you need to log directly with your Youtube account even with the Google invite.
CHINA ATTACKS! (Score:2)
Ak Ak Ak Ak!
Ak! Ak! Ak!
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Relax, all we need is a Slim Whitman Album. Wait, Album!?!?? Do we have Slim Whitman CDs!?!?!? Slim Whitman MP3s?!?!? No?!?!? We're Screwed!
This is news? (Score:1, Offtopic)
for nerds?
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A communications disruption can mean only one ... (Score:4, Funny)
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Invasion
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And here is the link to youtube (so that we stay on topic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiBooRQcl7c [youtube.com]
I'm watching Youtube right now... (Score:2)
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What am I doing wrong?
Watching Youtube. Now get back to work!
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DNS hack? (Score:1)
Noticed it earlier today. The Twitter-verse of course was immediately complaining about it. As usual I checked the ping, whois, traceroute stuff and it's interesting to say the least:
$ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ [internic.net]
for detailed information.
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.A
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Ah, ok then its just listing out servers. I'd not seen anything like it before, so thought it might have something to do with the outage today especially given the update date.
Two words: (Score:2, Flamebait)
DOSa and China.
It's clear that the chinese govt. is getting back at Google for uncensoring their searches. Banning the 'droid phones from the chinese telecoms, cutting access to the HK Google site were the first salvos, and perhaps bombing Youtube is just one in a number of hostile steps.
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I'm starting to wonder, Google's services have been finicky for me all day. I can barely use Reader, Voice won't work at all and even the usual search giant keeps telling me there's been an internal server error.
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That's what retarded Americans really believe.
Well, I guess you'll have to add Finland to the "retarded" countries list.
Brazil (Score:1)
That's nothing (Score:3, Insightful)
Now, if Facebook would go down... That would yeild a significant productivity increase.
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It is down! I just tried to post a comment, and it didn't work! Time to submit the story to Slashdot, Facebook is down!
...Oh, wait. There it goes. Never mind.
(Seriously, YouTube was down? Then how did I manage to upload a video this morning?)
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Havent noticed any problems. (Score:1)
I have been using it since last night and it has worked throughout from atleast last night up until now. This is a local problem somewhere, not real outage.
Could this be... (Score:2)
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"I did them both, so you should be good. Later."
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Yes, lets all help (Score:1)
No Dancing Kitties?!!! (Score:1)
But I'm a cat... I'm a kitty cat... and I dance, dance, dance... and I dance, dance, dance.
lol
I love that Twitter even has "Service Unavailable" as a trending topic. ;-) heh
First.... (Score:3, Funny)
root-server's records rather than Youtube? (Score:2, Informative)
I'd assume this is because of the root-server records being wonky for a while now, rather than Youtube itself:
https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-March/005263.html
It was down from Japan... (Score:2)
...a couple of hours ago.
Interestingly I was getting a fairly standard plain-text Apache error page on a few page accesses, which gave me the impression something was screwy with DNS.
Back to normal now.
I know why it's down (Score:4, Funny)
'Technical Error' Cited (Score:2)
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Re:it's back.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Until you get all the slashdotters going to check the see if the web site is up, then the site gets slashdotted. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Re:it's back.... (Score:4, Insightful)
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when my website was posted on wikipedia, it went down, even though it was hosted by microsuck.
No... I think you mean because it was hosted by Microsoft.
When Walter Koenig's son when missing (and was later found dead), Yahoo was bombing on the connection attempts to Walter's site due to links on Wikipedia and numerous news and info websites across the country. I took over the traffic on one of my servers (the slowest of the bunch) and managed to handle the 300-600 requests per second that the traffic was generating with no problem, all while maintaining an average of 10% CPU load on my ancient Quad
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IIS is actually pretty damn good. I think there's more to this story than you're letting on here. Was his server a shared host? Or perhaps just even older than yours?
Here's an example benchmark: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Apache-20-Holds-Its-Own-in-Performance-Tests/ [eweek.com]
Admittedly it's an old test (8 years!), and since then, IIS has improved significantly (and no doubt Apache has too). I don't think that the IIS version in that test even uses IO completion ports (and say what you like about the prop
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IIS was soooo good that when Microsoft bought Hotmail and switched from SunOS and Solaris to IIS, it took many many times the number of servers for it to barely crawl along. (I was there... I worked for UUNet at the time... and any of you who know anything about the Internet from those days know exactly what I am referring to... and any of you who worked for UUNet know it even more (including who, at the time, was really doing MS's MSN and WebTV connections, routing and numerous servers).
What seems to be
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You could easily run Server 2003 on that machine,
Along with it's various unpatched vulnerabilities... which will increase as they end support for it? That leaves the $2000 investment better spent on Win2K8.
it's many many times more than the minimum requirements.
No... it's not. Win2K is suited for that server. WinServer2003 isnt really. Gotta remember, look at the DataCenter requirements (remember the load we are considering):
http://www.petri.co.il/hardware_requirements_for_windows_server_2003.htm
CPUs too slow (and not upgradable in that machine beyond their current 550MHz). Memory is OK. And their "rec
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Except for Wikipedia. I remember having problems with that site yesterday after I read about it on Slashdot.
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reverse-slashdotted?
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