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YouTube Is Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-it's-2012-already dept.

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.

152 comments

  1. Well now... by Theoboley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, there will be more productivity across United States Workforce on Thursday!

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    1. Re:Well now... by twisteddk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Except for with all the viacom employees that are trying to upload their stuff

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    2. Re:Well now... by Theoboley · · Score: 0

      truth. Sounds like a company paid vacation day for them.

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    3. Re:Well now... by xaxa · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And except for us, reading Slashdot.

    4. Re:Well now... by jhoegl · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes... I have often felt that Slashdots multiple stories every 5 seconds takes up most of my day.

    5. Re:Well now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Now, there will be more productivity across United States Workforce on Thursday!

      http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/12/139/2004636948321281979_rs.jpg

  2. it's back.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    working fine now

    1. Re:it's back.... by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey, it's Slashdot here... by the time the news make it to the main headlines, any website downtime can be resolved.

    2. Re:it's back.... by ByOhTek · · Score: 1

      reverse-slashdotted?

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    3. Re:it's back.... by natehoy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

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    4. Re:it's back.... by tsalmark · · Score: 1

      Sadly.

    5. Re:it's back.... by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      YouTube, Slashdotted? I doubt Slashdot traffic creates a peak significant enough to be noticed on YouTube's traffic charts. Even if there was a link to an HD video in the submitted story.

    6. Re:it's back.... by Rallias+Ubernerd · · Score: 1

      when my website was posted on wikipedia, it went down, even though it was hosted by microsuck. It is possible that when a major website is advertising a minor website (or a major website advertises a major website for that matter) that the advertised may go down. However, Youtube is owned by Google, so any downtime created will only affect one of Googles square mile server farms.

    7. Re:it's back.... by icannotthinkofaname · · Score: 1

      Except for Wikipedia. I remember having problems with that site yesterday after I read about it on Slashdot.

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    8. Re:it's back.... by RobertM1968 · · Score: 1

      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 550MHz Xeon 3 Netfinity 7000 M10. I coulda dumped it on our 8-way IBM x440 - but for what reason? The ancient Netfinity didnt even seem to know it was doing anything... an 8-way 2.8GHz machine woulda been severe overkill.

      The differences? (1) I dont run Windows Server and/or IIS Server for anything (they are truly toys not designed for handling traffic) - I run WSeB and either LDGW or latest Apache. (2) I dont CPU throttle or bandwidth throttle the connections (not that such would matter with a decent OS or web server - because as noted, we were averaging 10% or less CPU utilization, no real memory utilization (only a few megs more for file caching).

      We ran out of outgoing bandwidth long before the server even knew it was doing any work (and that was at over 700 requests per second)... but our peak of 9-10Mbs is trivial compared to the bandwidth Yahoo and Microsoft allocate to their servers and still should not have triggered the server errors Walter's site was reporting - especially since we had to do the move when Walter's site was only serving a measly 80-150 requests per second (well, it was actually serving maybe 40% of those and returning errors the rest of the time).

      Sometimes you get what you paid for... other times (using crappy web serving daemons on an even crappier OS) you dont even get that much.

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    9. Re:it's back.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moron.

    10. Re:it's back.... by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 1

      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/
      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 proprietry-ness of MS, they allow any application, including the Windows version of Apache, to use them too).
      But even in this old test, they don't struggle with the load you claim IIS struggles with.

    11. Re:it's back.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You arent serious, are you? Let's break that article down.

      (1) That is NOT the same amount of traffic... that barely touches on half of it.

      (2) Comparing Apache on Windows is a bad comparison to IIS on Windows. Apache does not have the same ability to use many of the "undocumented" calls IIS uses (yet still performed well in comparison - and better on non-Windows systems).

      (3) I guarantee you that the machine tested on (that didnt get tested to even one half the traffic - much less that much traffic in a SECOND (look at the left charts) is far more powerful than the Quad 550MHz ancient beast used in the guy's test above.

    12. Re:it's back.... by RobertM1968 · · Score: 1

      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 the big point for comparable performance is having a top of the line box for IIS. Not as much with Apache/Linux or Apache/WSeB or LDGW/WSeB.

      Nowadays, that is becoming more important as WinServer2008 needs a LOT of resources in comparison to a similarly capable Apache/Linux or Apache/WSeB or LDGW/WSeB would need.

      So, yeah, IIS may be "great" if you can throw the newest, fastest hardware at WinServer 2008 and IIS... but for the rest of us (who also want more flexibility without (a) hassles of installing a ton of extra modules and with (b) keeping to open source solutions) Apache wins hands down.

      I've got no intentions of retiring my Netfinity 7000 M10 any time soon. But to run the latest WinServer/IIS, it doesnt even meet 1/2 the hardware requirements in virtually any area - and can outperform the latest WinServer/IIS combination on the latest hardware.

      Or... I could always compare my box to an 8 year old review and limit myself to Win2K and an ancient, insecure version of IIS.

      Which makes more sense?
      (a) Keep running my same ancient hardware on the newest Linux or WSeB builds, along with either Apache or LDGW to get some damn solid performance?
      (b) Run an ancient version of Windows (Win2K) and a very old version of IIS (v5 or v4)?
      (c) Spend a bunch of money on a new server (or waste the power of our x440) to use the newest WinServer2008/IIS combination to get similar performance to choices (a) or (b) above?

      It's all a matter of keeping reality in perspective... thus, your post really doesnt matter as it does not equate to anything that fits within my reality (unless you wanna dump a lot of money my way for an equally redundant machine so I can run Win Server 2008 and the newest IIS... but be warned, if you do that... it'll probably end up getting a faster (ie: less hardware hungry) OS like Linux, WSeB or eComStation and Apache).

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    13. Re:it's back.... by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 0

      You could easily run Server 2003 on that machine, it's many many times more than the minimum requirements. Though I'll admit I am at a loss why server 2008's requirements are so high in comparison to 2003's, especially with the new super-cut-down "core" version. Perhaps it just uses new instruction set extensions, so it doesn't actually require a 1GHz cpu, they just don't make any slower cpus with the necessary instructions.

      I'm not saying you should change from Apache, clearly you're used to admining it and Windows Server is not cheap. However, IIS is a lot better than you make out.

    14. Re:it's back.... by RobertM1968 · · Score: 1

      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 "recommended" requirements do not take into account what happens once you apply all the service packs and hotfixes (hence XP was 128MB requirement - and now is a LOT more).

      Though I'll admit I am at a loss why server 2008's requirements are so high in comparison to 2003's,

      So am I...

      especially with the new super-cut-down "core" version. Perhaps it just uses new instruction set extensions, so it doesn't actually require a 1GHz cpu, they just don't make any slower cpus with the necessary instructions.

      I'm not saying you should change from Apache, clearly you're used to admining it and Windows Server is not cheap. However, IIS is a lot better than you make out.

      IF I want to get a lot more hardware to throw at it.

      Again, the issue here is, even if IIS is "as good as" Apache, it requires a lot more hardware under high loads to be as good. It's not just familiarity with Apache (I've managed IIS, Domino, DominoGo and Apache)... it's that I need full performance out of the web server, and if you call Microsoft (I did) they'll laugh at running a bunch of websites using Server2003 on a box as "underpowered" as the Netfinity I have.

      To get the recommended "horsepower" would require something akin to my x440. So, why in the world would I want to use an old version of Windows Server (2003) on a machine so powerful, when WSeB and either Apache or LDGW can do the same thing on my ancient box? I'd rather simply set up another WSeB and Apache setup on the x440 and have even more availability that simply get the same as the Netfinity simply because I made the mistake of going Server2003/IIS.

      To achieve the same on Server2008, I would need to spend about $20,000 to get a comparable server that is as highly redundant... yeah, I can get a "cheapo" box built with nice components... but I *need* a box, where for other than catastrophic failure, I can hot swap just about anything (NICs, fans, HDDs, power supplies, etc) or can ignore memory errors as the machine auto-switches to a new bank and marks a bank or module bad, or take full advantage of the RAID memory (or, as most server owners know it... RAM... but in the Netfinity's case, it's actually RAM with RAID chips and controllers and ECC and such to ensure constant uptime even in the event of a module or bank failure).

      And of course, with how cheap the Netfinity's are, I can simply have a backup on standby for a catastrophic failure - which I do - and still pay far less while retaining the redundancy.

      Hopefully that clarifies what I am trying to say...

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  3. Down for whom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Where are they located, China? I just pulled it up, along with a couple of vids, without a hitch.

  4. Works here by Donniedarkness · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm in the US, and it's working here in the Southeast.

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    1. Re:Works here by julesh · · 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. ;)

    2. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Also in Southeast US (North Carolina) and it works fine for me.

    3. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    4. Re:Works here by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 1

      And working here in the Netherlands :)

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    5. Re:Works here by badpazzword · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

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    6. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm in the US, and it's working here in the Southeast.

      I'm in the Netherlands. It's down here.

    7. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Here is a link to the story. However I think it's already slashdotted.

    8. Re:Works here by DerekLyons · · Score: 1

      With the huge number of websites out there, and with Wikipedia's outage yesterday... That "service unavailable" is a trending topic, proves little.

    9. Re:Works here by jmac_the_man · · Score: 1

      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...

    10. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What we *have* here, is a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE!

    11. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Northeastern US working too. Would have posted earlier but /. was slow.

    12. Re:Works here by PNutts · · Score: 1

      Would have posted earlier but /. was slow.

      Thanks for stealing my Slashdot story submission.

    13. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Links? A link would just 400 or 302, duh! RTFS!

    14. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I work for google and it was just a single CDN node, while a lot of people noticed, it was a very small % of the total traffic serve for Youtube. Nothing to see here, not sure why it made the front page... Typical slashdot FUD.

    15. Re:Works here by nacturation · · Score: 1

      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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    16. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Broken in Belgium

    17. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I work for google and it was just a single CDN node...

      You work for google too?!? Bob, is that you?

    18. Re:Works here by fbjon · · Score: 1
      It was working for you because it had been fixed already. Youtube just happens to be a major site on the Internet, why wouldn't it be news?

      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.

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  5. attack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    google under siege?

  6. It's working for me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure you didn't mean YouPr0n? I can't verify that website as i'm at work!

    1. Re:It's working for me. by disi · · Score: 1

      up and running: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDcMfu-i4w&feature=fvhl

  7. Works fine from Canada by decipher_saint · · Score: 1

    Seems fine to me...

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    1. Re:Works fine from Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Works from Europe, too. NSA has just fucked up something.

    2. Re:Works fine from Canada by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's because it takes time for the errors to propogate that far from civilization ;-P

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    3. Re:Works fine from Canada by decipher_saint · · Score: 1

      Haha that would make sense.

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    4. Re:Works fine from Canada by ZDRuX · · Score: 1

      You talkin' aboot our igloos? Just wait a darn tootin' minute pal! I'll fix you up, just wait till I saddle my polar bear! Then, you'll be sorry eh!

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  8. But here I sit reading Slashdot... by sirrunsalot · · Score: 1

    It's like putting my thumb in a dam. It stops the dancing kitties, but hardly slows down the flood of mind-numbing, uh... internetish... stuff.

  9. Dancing kitties will still be there? by TSchut · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does the submitter know that the dancing kitties will still be there? Maybe there's a big fire and all dancing kitties have been burned! ONOES. Or at least, their digital representation has been burned. Still onoes I suppose.

    1. Re:Dancing kitties will still be there? by natehoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      U meen I cn haz Kntuky Fryed Kittah?

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    2. Re:Dancing kitties will still be there? by bughunter · · Score: 1

      Because we know that no one can stop kitties from dancing, that's how.

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    3. Re:Dancing kitties will still be there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      U meen I cn haz Kntuky Fryed Kittah?

      Om Nom Nom Nom

  10. OMFG NO !!! by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 4, 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 !!!

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    1. Re:OMFG NO !!! by VJ42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      now i'll have to actually WORK ???

      Not if you just carry on reading /.

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    2. Re:OMFG NO !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Reading /. is his work.

  11. Thanks... by Foolhardly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll definitely be getting work done today seeing as Slashdot has run out of actual news.

    1. Re:Thanks... by Xelios · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wikipedia was also down for a couple hours earlier, why wasn't I informed of this Slashdot??

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    2. Re:Thanks... by digital_proletariat · · Score: 1

      Oh, but you were.

    3. Re:Thanks... by bendodge · · Score: 1

      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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    4. Re:Thanks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I also restarted my personal apache server couple of weeks ago. Just a FYI.

    5. Re:Thanks... by apoc.famine · · Score: 1

      You were....yesterday.

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  12. GOOD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Less lag.

  13. um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    no youtube is working just fine here. Could you just remove the whole thread from the front page now?

  14. Dunno by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dunno, youtube is up and my dancing kitties are dancing still.

  15. Slow news day? by whobutdrew · · Score: 1

    How is this newsworthy?

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    1. Re:Slow news day? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1

      It's today's "and nothing of value was lost" entry.

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    2. Re:Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You see, youtube.com is a very popular site on the internet and it being down affects lots of people.

      Slashdot.org, another popular site, specializes in "news for nerds". Many of those nerds are often on the internet and might be interested in youtube.com being down and they might also be interested in speculation as to why that is (or was) the case.

      I think the the reasoning behind publishing this as news might be something along those lines or something. Feel free to ask follow-up questions if there is anything more you'd be interested to know.

  16. Just the frontpage is down by csueiras · · Score: 0

    If you go directly to a video link, youtube works. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3sBBRxDAqk for example. Happy Youtube Browsing! :)

  17. Cricket/IPL Effect? by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Today Bangalore is playing in the IPL today and youtube is supposed to be streaming the match live. The timing of this outage is almost coincidental. And not all of youtube is down, for instance, I clicked through to this video 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).

    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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    1. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hahaha, what in the hell are you talking about?

    2. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Let me guess, you work for a three lettered company that starts with an I?

    3. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by natehoy · · Score: 1

      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".

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    4. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by elrous0 · · Score: 1

      I guess the billions upon billions of cricket fans waiting across the world with baited breath for this match will just have to be disappointed.

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    5. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think you meant "bated breath". And yes, cricket really does have billions of fans worldwide. Unlike baseball, which has really no expression outside of the US and Cuba, cricket is a true trans-continental sport, attracting interest in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania.

    6. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by mcb · · Score: 1

      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.

    7. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Japan is more of a US slave colony. We tried to make them go away, but then they started singing our national anthem at their baseball games and it got weird. It's like that ex girlfriend that keeps coming around and compulsively cleaning your apartment and offering to suck your dick.

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    8. Re:Cricket/IPL Effect? by elrous0 · · Score: 1

      No, you're thinking of soccer. Cricket is soccer's retard cousin. People that claim to like her are just trying to get into soccer's pants.

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  18. google reader is also down for me by darjen · · Score: 1

    here in ohio.

    1. Re:google reader is also down for me by OffTheWallSoccer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Quit routing through servers in China. Or move to California, where YouTube and other google things are still running.

    2. Re:google reader is also down for me by darjen · · Score: 1

      thanks for the helpful suggestion!

  19. Reply from China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    After yesterdays news, I wonder if this is China doing?

  20. Missing Link by Rattenhirn · · Score: 2, Funny

    What? No Link?

    1. Re:Missing Link by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 1

      Who needs a link to go to YouTube?!? I mean, put a link to a wiki article, put a link to a specific news article, but on YouTube...

      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!

    2. Re:Missing Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wonder if there's a "joke whoosh" video.

  21. It's back up, it was down from everywhere ... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  22. Netherlands by santax · · Score: 1

    Hmmz, working fine for me here, although I hear other people complain here also.

  23. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    maybe it's just been slashdotted?

  24. MPAA/RIAA involved? by linebackn · · Score: 1

    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.

  25. Anarchy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Love it!

    One website full of movies about dick-heads setting fire to themselves or falling off boards or blades in more wonderful and painful ways, and society starts to grind to a halt! LOL!

    Dunno about three meals away from anarchy, the loss of one small copper/fibre cable now seems be way!

  26. Educational impact by DeadPixels · · Score: 1

    Amusingly enough, one of my professors attempted to show a YouTube video on UA Flight 232 not an hour ago. It worked after refreshing the page, however - doesn't seem like it was much of an outage. He did draw a cry of "Fail!" from one overzealous student, though. :)

  27. Back up, lasted ~1.5 hrs for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seems to work now (Champaign, IL) - I documented it at http://bit.ly/a3hPk5, that's the first direct reference I can find for either the start or the end of the downtime as of the last update.

  28. Shroedinger's dancing kitties by flyingfsck · · Score: 1

    Shroedinger's dancing kitties are simultaneously dancing and sleeping, but Heisenberg's dancing kitties turn into yapping puppies as soon as you look in the box.

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    1. Re:Shroedinger's dancing kitties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I always like to get a view of someone's puppies even when I'm hoping to see some pussy or a box, or two of 'em touching.

  29. Anyone else notice the slow responses from Google? by C_Kode · · Score: 3, 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?

  30. CHINA ATTACKS! by Virtucon · · Score: 1

    Ak Ak Ak Ak!

    Ak! Ak! Ak!

    --
    Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
    1. Re:CHINA ATTACKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are the chances that two of the biggest online content providers go down sequentially within two days.

    2. Re:CHINA ATTACKS! by Virtucon · · Score: 1

      Relax, all we need is a Slim Whitman Album. Wait, Album!?!?? Do we have Slim Whitman CDs!?!?!? Slim Whitman MP3s?!?!? No?!?!? We're Screwed!

      --
      Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
    3. Re:CHINA ATTACKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      damn. If horrible music could stop them, Korea would have conquered China long ago.

      Looks like we'll have to nuke them.

  31. This is news? by js3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    for nerds?

    --
    did you forget to take your meds?
    1. Re:This is news? by ascari · · Score: 1

      Not only is it "news" it is "good news". That statement actually speaks to your point....

  32. A communications disruption can mean only one ... by guysmilee · · Score: 4, Funny

    A communications disruption can mean only one thing!

  33. I'm watching Youtube right now... by anss123 · · Score: 1

    What am I doing wrong?

    1. Re:I'm watching Youtube right now... by confused+one · · Score: 2, Funny

      What am I doing wrong?

      Watching Youtube. Now get back to work!

  34. China's firewall by PARENA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dutch news site says claims that it's China's Great Wall of Fire causing the issues in for example the US and Chile.

    Dutch version: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2212625/firewall-china-filtert-amerikaans-verkeer.html

    Google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Finternet%2F2212625%2Ffirewall-china-filtert-amerikaans-verkeer.html&sl=nl&tl=en

    --
    Here's the secret to immortality: ...oh dang, I forgot.
  35. DNS hack? by rjiy · · 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/
    for detailed information.

    YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
    YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
    YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    YOUTUBE.COM.LOVES.HILPERS.COM
    YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
    YOUTUBE.COM

    To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
    of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
    with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

    >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:59:16 UTC

    GULLI.com seems to be somewhere in Germany as per its geo ip.

    The stuff above is still what I get back from whois.internic.net.

    Wow, just checked for whois google.com and it's coming back worse:

    GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
    GOOGLE.COM.VN
    GOOGLE.COM.UY
    GOOGLE.COM.UA
    GOOGLE.COM.TW
    GOOGLE.COM.TR
    GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
    GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
    GOOGLE.COM.SANATATEA-NOASTRA.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.SA
    GOOGLE.COM.PROGRAMASVIP.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.MX
    GOOGLE.COM.IS.SHIT.SQUAREBOARDS.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
    GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
    GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.DO
    GOOGLE.COM.CO
    GOOGLE.COM.CN
    GOOGLE.COM.CHIQUITASEXY.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.BR
    GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    GOOGLE.COM.AU
    GOOGLE.COM.AR
    GOOGLE.COM

    Anybody else seeing this?

    1. Re:DNS hack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Whois is not DNS. Whois 'does' this... its quite a well known thing. Guess most implementations search using 'begins with'

      S

    2. Re:DNS hack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, yes.

      Using whois on 3 different systems in 3 different locations.

      All of the server name fields appear to have been violated..

      Weird.


      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
      IP Address: 80.190.192.24
      Registrar: EPAG DOMAINSERVICES GMBH
      Whois Server: whois.enterprice.net
      Referral URL: http://www.enterprice.net

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
      Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
      Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
      Referral URL: http://www.melbourneit.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
      IP Address: 84.255.209.69
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SANATATEA-NOASTRA.COM
      IP Address: 216.239.34.21
      IP Address: 216.239.36.21
      IP Address: 216.239.38.21
      IP Address: 216.239.32.21
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SA
      Registrar: OMNIS NETWORK, LLC
      Whois Server: whois.omnis.com
      Referral URL: http://domains.omnis.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.PROGRAMASVIP.COM
      IP Address: 173.201.178.47
      Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com
      Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.MX
      Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
      Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
      Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.IS.SHIT.SQUAREBOARDS.COM
      IP Address: 203.170.84.81
      Registrar: AUST DOMAINS INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD DBA AUST DOMAINS, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.syra.com.au
      Referral URL: http://www.syra.com.au

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
      IP Address: 217.148.161.5
      Registrar: ENOM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.enom.com
      Referral URL: http://www.enom.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
      IP Address: 66.49.213.213
      Registrar: NAME.COM LLC
      Whois Server: whois.name.com
      Referral URL: http://www.name.com

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
      IP Address: 213.228.0.43
      Registrar: GANDI SAS
      Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
      Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net

      Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
      IP Address: 209.187.114.130
      Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
      Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
      Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

      Server Name: GOOGLE.CO

    3. Re:DNS hack? by bcmm · · Score: 1

      Try it for any really big site (I mean Facebook big not Slashdot big). It's been like that for years. Just a stupid failure in how whois works. Can somebody explain how it works?

      --
      # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
      Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
    4. Re:DNS hack? by rjiy · · Score: 1

      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.

    5. Re:DNS hack? by vikingpower · · Score: 1

      nope. Internic has a normal-looking record. Smells like a Chinese DNS hack, though.

      --
      Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
  36. Two words: by blind+biker · · Score: 1, 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.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
    1. Re:Two words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's what retarded Americans really believe.

    2. Re:Two words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that you, Hu?

    3. Re:Two words: by blind+biker · · Score: 1

      That's what retarded Americans really believe.

      Well, I guess you'll have to add Finland to the "retarded" countries list.

      --
      "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
    4. Re:Two words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can it be related to the recent news tip posted on ars, about DNS root servers?

      China censorship leaks outside Great Firewall via root server

      http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/china-censorship-leaks-outside-great-firewall-via-root-server.ars

    5. Re:Two words: by Aphoxema · · Score: 1

      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.

      --
      "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
  37. Re:A communications disruption can mean only one . by ZoneManSPW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Invasion

  38. Brazil by fcampelo · · Score: 1

    Working well down here...

  39. That's nothing by confused+one · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, if Facebook would go down... That would yeild a significant productivity increase.

    1. Re:That's nothing by _xeno_ · · Score: 1

      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?)

      --
      You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
    2. Re:That's nothing by confused+one · · Score: 1

      Damn. You had me going there for a second. Seriously, I've considered blocking the Facebook.com domain at my household router...

    3. Re:That's nothing by recharged95 · · Score: 1

      And we'll notice a increase of bandwidth during that day.

  40. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by Fearan · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that too in the last 2 weeks.

  41. Havent noticed any problems. by miffo.swe · · 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.

    --
    HTTP/1.1 400
  42. Wasted my time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I went to check and dammit I wasted time on Youtube watching a college humor bit. It was funny though.

  43. Could this be... by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 1

    ... the first instance of a website being slashdotted before /. runs the story?

    --
    Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
    1. Re:Could this be... by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 1

      Oh, and further, The Website Is Down

      "I did them both, so you should be good. Later."

      --
      Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
    2. Re:Could this be... by Bobby+Mahoney · · Score: 2, Funny

      And by extension, the first instance of Quantum Slashdotting?

      --
      !#&*
  44. Yes, lets all help by Jinxo · · Score: 1

    YouTube is down. And a million viewers from /. descend upon it like the plague. Yeah, that'll help bring it back up...

  45. No Dancing Kitties?!!! by KatchooNJ · · 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

    --
    "Never give up, for that is just the time and place when the tide will change." -Harriet Beecher Stowe ^_^
  46. First.... by GigG · · Score: 2, Funny

    First Wikipedia now YouTube!!! We are under cyber attack!!! The end is near!!

    --
    Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
  47. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by alen · · Score: 1

    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

  48. Re:Works here, in France - Cote Azur also by miknix · · Score: 1

    dito

  49. five nines ? by Thud457 · · Score: 1

    previously on slashdot:
    Hardware: Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter on Thursday March 25, @07:57AM

    ah well, doesn't matter if I have electricty, youtube is down!

    --

    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  50. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by Khalid · · Score: 1

    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 happened in the past.

  51. Don't sweat it, by KnowledgeKeeper · · Score: 1

    we just slashdotted the youtube :D

    --
    It is always better to be a first grade version of yourself than a second grade version of someone else.
  52. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by kiehlster · · Score: 1

    I have a theory. I've experienced this for the last week, half-blaming the issue on recently acquiring a new computer. I believe it is related to some kind of change period, especially surrounding YouTube. Google is transitioning YouTube user accounts into full-fledged Google accounts and dropping the legacy YouTube accounts altogether. I found last night that, because I was authenticated with my legacy ID (which was stored in a Google cookie) I couldn't access the website at all. After deleting all YouTube and Google cookies, I was about to access the website with only occasional errors. If you ask me, I'd say that this massive transition might be hammering on their authentication servers.

  53. root-server's records rather than Youtube? by Anonymous Coward · · 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

  54. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by Wormholio · · Score: 1

    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?

    Yes, I use Google for DNS and I've notice in the past day or two that it fails for long intervals (many minutes). I also wondered about DOS.

    --
    "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
  55. It was down from Japan... by adnonsense · · Score: 1

    ...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.

  56. Wrong forum... by hargrand · · Score: 1

    ... this should have been on Idle.

  57. I know why it's down by g0bshiTe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rick Astely hacked it. He is p15SdX0rD they removed his Rick Roll video.

    --
    I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
  58. Cyber-attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is it coincidental that the US has high awareness of so called "cyber-warfare" and there are interruptions in popular sites and a withdrawal of US companies from China? I mean in the last days there has been high-level interruptions on Wikipedia and Youtube. Along with the Google situation. I think that this is not coincidental. I suspect both China and USA to have something to do with this.

  59. Great News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wait... this even classify as news? Where is the source? Where is the citations?
    Just because you are a Taco it does mean you don't have abide by the same rules of us humans.

  60. 'Technical Error' Cited by 1sockchuck · · Score: 1

    The YouTube staff now says the downtime was due to a technical error. That really narrows it down.

  61. Re:A communications disruption can mean only one . by droopycom · · Score: 1

    And here is the link to youtube (so that we stay on topic):

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiBooRQcl7c

  62. Unbalanced by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wikipedia was down yesterday, where's the Slashdot story?

  63. Re:Anyone else notice the slow responses from Goog by Khalid · · Score: 1

    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.