My 6-year-old son, Max, just scooped his journalist Dad: "The LEGO Star Wars videos are broken," he called from the office as I peck away here at the kitchen table.
Sure enough, YouTube appears to be down.
There are reports of the same nature coming from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and here in Massachusetts. Been going on for at least an hour, it would seem, maybe longer. Some people are having a hard time coping ... others are starting to freak.
(Update, 10:40 a.m.: Back up; no explanation yet as to what happened. ... Got one now; see below.)
"Seriously, its starting to scare me," writes this blogger. "If nothing else I need youtube up tonight to watch Transformers Animated and the next episode of 'From the Drawer.' "
Tin-foil hatters are conjuring up conspiracy theories, of course. Blame Hillary?
Meanwhile, Max, being the savvy Web veteran that most 6-year-olds are these days, is getting his LEGO Star Wars video fix on another site.
Me? I'm going to eat breakfast.
(Update: Trying to get some word out of Google PR ... Still haven't had breakfast.)
(Update, 10:07: Speculation about a DNS hack here.)
(Update, 11:30: From a YouTube spokesman: "The site was down for about an hour due to internal technical issues. Our engineers quickly assessed and resolved the problem." ... It was more like three hours, but let's not quibble.)
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Add Northern Virginia to that list. I was trying to track down a Bill Maher video on YouTube, but I keep getting the infamous "Page Not Found" message.
YouTube down, everybody panic
It's down here in Ireland too - guess I better get mowing the lawn!
youtube down
hahaah guess i better get to work then ... hummm
I hope it is not the riaa, I
I hope it is not the riaa, I hope for ultimate downtime for the riaa.
IP address for Youtube works just fine...
208.65.153.251 - Add it to your hosts file, and you ae good to go. It is just another DNS issue in their long list of DNS problems.
down in Italy too
looks like my DNS (Telecom Italia) can't even resolve www.youtube.com.
weird.
Youtube isn't down.
Youtube isn't down, the DNS server is broken. If you connect directly to youtube's IP, http://208.65.153.251
It is clearly still up. Next time, do some basic research before you write a news "article" about the internet. Networkworld indeed.
ha! you call that "up"?? i
ha! you call that "up"?? i mean, sure their servers are serving their pages, but apparently their urls are all ... um? referencing servers which are also having dns problems - can't actually get videos/images? so, sure, it's a dns issue, resulting in youtube being, effectively, DOWN. news worthy - esp. for folks thinking it might be their home network and who aren't computer savy. jesus.
Thanks buddy, for that great
Thanks buddy, for that great insight!
Unfortunately not all of us have YouTube's IP address memorised off by heart.
Youtube "Down"
All these "News articles" with so called "Facts" . LOL. I must agree, all post and no facts. What wonderful "Journalism".