CATEGORIES
- WEB STARTUPS
- CONFERENCES
- WEB JOBS
- MICROSOFT
- INTERVIEWS
- VIDEO
- AMAZON
- ALL TOPICS
CONTRIBUTORS
YouTube Down – May 3
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.
YOUTUBE is down here in California it’s 0115 hrs well time to go to sleep i uess
OH NOES YOU TUBE IS DYING WE SHALL PULE TO KAMAPAA AND PELE AND OTHER **** FOR YOU TUBE TO COME UP
You cannot create a new account. I know, I’m the last person on earth without one.
YouTube homepage was down, but their videos were still accessible (such as the embedded ones etc).
I’m based in London, it was down for about 10-15 minutes from my office.
Nope, nothing yet, at 4am Northern BC time, very frustrating, i was looking forward to a laugh, and taking a break from some work, but i guess not tonight…. ; ( oh well.
youtube down here to long island NY time 10:41 am est
web site is still down main page dont load time now 10:39AM est new york
Still down. Been unusable for days.
It seems YouTube is down on Nov 8th @ 11:14 AM EST. Getting YouTube is under maintenance and very slow connection
My youtube is down now to… I live in holland 20:18 atm..
thank god ! red tube is still working
YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Don’t panic remain calm pray to God
[...] your car, taking a walk outside (gasp!), visiting a new startup, reading a book, etc. Check out our YouTube down section for previous [...]
8:06 perth australia time Tube not working
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.
down….right now
http://www.youtube.com/oops/error.html
YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly
It’s down tonight.
they seem to be down again… Wed, July 8th, 09
nvm its up :P
cant access youtube right now
Youtube was down again today for a good 15 minutes:
http://marketingblog.net/2009/06/23/youtube-not-working-down-for-maintenance/
Server error. Entire site not loading.
MUHAHHAHAHA I HACKED YOUTUBE !!!! U ALL NOOBS . I RULE THE WORLD !
not even getting the regular homepage with the broken links, it’s blink for me.
Hey guys, it’s working for me now.
Down for me. 5/14 5:22pm EDT
youtube is up again
time is 3:15am est
may 13th 2008
down for at least 3 hours
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
i cannot hear any sound from any of the videos.
did they ever provide an update as to what happened?
back up
http://www.youtube.com/gillettephenom
the nameserver problem at youtube has been fixed. the site is now resolving and back up again.
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.
I live in China and it’s been 3 days I cannot access Youtube, the site is not openning…
You rickrolled me, Allen. Thanks
It just started working for me again.
youtube is down for me in united states at 7 50pm
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.
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
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.
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
Stop pimping your blog…
It’s definitely very possible that the domain expired. See my response to the comment you left on my blog.
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
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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)
２ｃｈのやつ見てる～？♪
maybe it’s the pakistan government, again :)