YouTube Down

YouTube DownYouTube 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.

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49 COMMENTS
  1. Ashur says:

    Youtube is down. has been since around 6AM Arizona time. Worked fine until 2AM today.

  2. Anonymous says:

    YouTube is not accessible right now 7-7-08 16:06 CDT

  3. youtube is down for me in united states at 7 50pm

  4. Shane says:

    It just started working for me again.

  5. You rickrolled me, Allen. Thanks

  6. Anonymous says:

    I live in China and it’s been 3 days I cannot access Youtube, the site is not openning…

  7. 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.

  8. Szaszati says:

    Hey guys, it’s working for me now.

  9. David Moylan says:

    the nameserver problem at youtube has been fixed. the site is now resolving and back up again.

  10. goinglikesixty says:

    back up

  11. Anonymous says:

    did they ever provide an update as to what happened?

  12. Anonymous says:

    i cannot hear any sound from any of the videos.

  13. Anonymous says:

    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

  14. Anonymous says:

    youtube is up again
    time is 3:15am est
    may 13th 2008
    down for at least 3 hours

  15. Anonymous says:

    Down for me. 5/14 5:22pm EDT

  16. The Core says:

    not even getting the regular homepage with the broken links, it’s blink for me.

  17. artur says:

    MUHAHHAHAHA I HACKED YOUTUBE !!!! U ALL NOOBS . I RULE THE WORLD !

  18. andre says:

    Server error. Entire site not loading.

  19. Renegade says:

    cant access youtube right now

  20. Renegade says:

    nvm its up :P

  21. luc59457 says:

    they seem to be down again… Wed, July 8th, 09

  22. Dan says:

    It’s down tonight.

  23. David says:

    down….right now

    http://www.youtube.com/oops/error.html

    YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly

  24. Mike says:

    As of 1:57p EST,

    Pings are being dropped and the traceroute shows that once packets hits Google’s domains for youtube everything is dropped.

    Second test run confirmed, Youtube is down.

  25. bob says:

    8:06 perth australia time Tube not working

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  27. Gabriel says:

    Don’t panic remain calm pray to God

  28. yo says:

    YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!

  29. lucas says:

    thank god ! red tube is still working

  30. Jasper says:

    My youtube is down now to… I live in holland 20:18 atm..

  31. rawn says:

    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

  32. David Moylan says:

    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.

  33. Anonymous says:

    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

  34. Anonymous says:

    Stop pimping your blog…

  35. Shane says:

    It’s definitely very possible that the domain expired. See my response to the comment you left on my blog.

  36. Anonymous says:

    i am in london and all of the images are broken like you show in the graphic above.

  37. Anonymous says:

    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.

  38. kazo says:

    failed to open page, from Estonia

  39. Anonymous says:

    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 * * *

  40. Macedon says:

    it’s definitely down, omg, its allover the net

  41. Shane says:

    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.

  42. David Moylan says:

    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.

  43. 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)

  44. Shane says:

    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.

  45. Anonymous says:

    2chのやつ見てる~?♪

  46. Macedon says:

    maybe it’s the pakistan government, again :)

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