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YouTube Down
YouTube down? We have been receiving reports for the past 90 minutes that users are not able to access YouTube. Upon further testing, it looks like the YouTube CDN (static file server) is down. All images are not currently being served (see screenshot below) but videos and everything else (commenting, searching, etc.) appears to be working as normal. To the casual YouTube user, it looks like the site is down. Please leave a comment if you are noticing any other issues.
YouTube had two outages in February but since then it’s been smooth sailing.
Update: 9:15am Eastern - some are now reporting via IPTools that the DNS for YouTube has been hacked. This may or may not be valid as IPTools lookup is quite crap - if you do a search for youtube.com you get back anything with youtube in it - just try microsoft.com to see the results.
Update: 9:17am Eastern - additional reports are coming in that embedded videos are also down, we can confirm that videos on CN from YouTube are not loading.
Update: YouTube is back. You may resume cat video watching.
i am in london and all of the images are broken like you show in the graphic above.
whois looks hacked.
http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=whois&user_data=youtube.com&submit=Go
failed to open page, from Estonia
Pinging the Youtube DNS shows the route is down at the datacenter:
traceroute to 208.65.152.137 (208.65.152.137), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
…
3 xe-0-1-0-19.lon10.ip.tiscali.net (77.67.64.193) 1.094 ms 10.260 ms 1.101 ms
4 ge6-2-1000M.ar4.LON3.gblx.net (64.212.107.89) 1.392 ms 213.200.77.234 (213.200.77.234) 1.607 ms 1.708 ms
5 YOUTUBE-LLC.tengigabitethernet8-2.ar3.DCA3.gblx.net (208.48.1.186) 80.579 ms 80.300 ms 80.451 ms
6 * * *
it’s definitely down, omg, its allover the net
you have no idea how to interpret the result of a whois request. there is nothing that has been hacked here. try the same for microsoft.com and see the results.
Open Cubicle reported on my blog that the domain expired and Google temporarily lost control of it. Haven’t heard that anywhere else, though, so I have no clue if it’s true or not.
The reason? Simple: http://www.youtube.com is down, but I can go to br.youtube.com (Youtube Brazil) and watch videos - video screenshots doesn’t load, though. (I’m in Brazil)
You can only get there because the DNS result has been cached for you, though. Once that cached result expires, you’ll start to see what everyone else is seeing.
２ｃｈのやつ見てる～？♪
maybe it’s the pakistan government, again :)
the problem is to do with the nameservers for youtube.com. the domain is not due to expire until 15-FEB-2009.
guaranteed bogus that someone “lost control” of the domain.
http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/04/30/ok-im-calling-it-youtube-has-crashed/
After waiting 45 minutes and not having a clue who would be interested, I told Scobelizer and Wired. I guess they weren’t interested.
Hope that helps you figure out the story.
It’s definitely very possible that the domain expired. See my response to the comment you left on my blog.
Hey guys, it’s working for me now.
the nameserver problem at youtube has been fixed. the site is now resolving and back up again.
http://www.youtube.com/gillettephenom
back up
It just started working for me again.
You rickrolled me, Allen. Thanks
did they ever provide an update as to what happened?
i cannot hear any sound from any of the videos.
youtube is down now 2am est approx here it’s
been down for hours
may 13 2008 2am est
down from just before midnight may 12 2008 to
??:?? unknown time till its up again.
Internal Error 500
lhflqhwflkhqwleyirqwlerybnweyrb…
blah blah blah
youtube is up again
time is 3:15am est
may 13th 2008
down for at least 3 hours
Down for me. 5/14 5:22pm EDT
I live in China and it’s been 3 days I cannot access Youtube, the site is not openning…
Stop pimping your blog…
The whois does indeed look like it got owned… look at the dns ffs. that looks like some noobs idea of a joke to me. look at the link before you say the guy has no idea what hes doing jackass.
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
I’m not a jackass … and I had already heard about many “uninformed” people reporting back the same things.
these entries in the whois database are NOT NEW and have been in for many years. use iptools to do a lookup on microsoft.com, yahoo.com, cnn.comand you’ll see the same style of data.
this is because iptools is doing a substring search on the whois database.
the entry you posted above is a valid one for the domain swingingcommunity.com. just because it has the words “youtube.com” in it somewhere, people go crying “it’s been hacked”.
nothing got “owned”. just because you cannot understand how to drive network diagnostic tools, you start trying to stir up more misinformation.
you, my friend, are a classic case of the same logic that starts riots.
i think you’ll enjoy this article. it works on your same logic.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2279/is_n149/ai_17782422
it’s entitled “give us our 11 days” and refers to the julian calendar correction done in 1752. in order to fix the calendar, 11 days were removed from the calendar to put it back in sync. A Mr Hogarth led a mob who wanted their 11 days back. they thought their lives were going to be 11 days shorter.
ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupidity.
cheers.
youtube is down for me in united states at 7 50pm
you are my hero. btw, im borrowing your ignorance quote, and the ‘you are the type that starts riots’ is so ROFL… youtube didnt get “pwnd” but HE did! hahaha
YouTube is not accessible right now 7-7-08 16:06 CDT
Youtube is down. has been since around 6AM Arizona time. Worked fine until 2AM today.
not even getting the regular homepage with the broken links, it’s blink for me.
MUHAHHAHAHA I HACKED YOUTUBE !!!! U ALL NOOBS . I RULE THE WORLD !
Server error. Entire site not loading.
Youtube was down again today for a good 15 minutes:
http://marketingblog.net/2009/06/23/youtube-not-working-down-for-maintenance/
cant access youtube right now
nvm its up :P