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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.

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  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 xaxa · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And except for us, reading Slashdot.

    3. 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.

  2. 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: 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.

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

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

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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 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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  7. 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.

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

    What? No Link?

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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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  12. 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?

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

    A communications disruption can mean only one thing!

  15. 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

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  16. Re:A communications disruption can mean only one . by ZoneManSPW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Invasion

  17. 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!

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

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

  19. First.... by GigG · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  20. 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.

  21. 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

  22. Re:Could this be... by Bobby+Mahoney · · Score: 2, Funny

    And by extension, the first instance of Quantum Slashdotting?

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

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

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