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YouTube Is Down
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.
Now, there will be more productivity across United States Workforce on Thursday!
Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try
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.
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 !!!
What ? Me, worry ?
I'll definitely be getting work done today seeing as Slashdot has run out of actual news.
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. ;)
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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Hey, it's Slashdot here... by the time the news make it to the main headlines, any website downtime can be resolved.
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.
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?
That's because it takes time for the errors to propogate that far from civilization ;-P
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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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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.
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