youtube down ?

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yea on another forum some people in the USA etc could get on it, but when i tried to ping it before it brought up a youtube-registered IP but it didnt connect, now its bringing up a slightly different IP and working:
pre-fixing:
Code: 
C:\Users\matthew>ping www.youtube.com

Pinging www.youtube.com [208.65.153.251] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.65.153.251:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
and now that its working:
Code: 
C:\Users\matthew>ping www.youtube.com

Pinging www.youtube.com [208.65.153.238] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=181ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 208.65.153.238:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 182ms, Average = 181ms
 
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mattyrigby00 said:
yea on another forum some people in the USA etc could get on it, but when i tried to ping it before it brought up a youtube-registered IP but it didnt connect, now its bringing up a slightly different IP and working:
Code: 
C:\Users\matthew>ping www.youtube.com

Pinging www.youtube.com [208.65.153.251] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.65.153.251:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Users\matthew>ping www.youtube.com

Pinging www.youtube.com [208.65.153.238] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=181ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=243
Reply from 208.65.153.238: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 208.65.153.238:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 182ms, Average = 181ms
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Ironically I just tried PINGing it myself, all seems fine.
Request timed out on a PING could mean anything though, heck they may have just closed the sockets and you wouldn't be able to get a reply back anyway.
 
"do not anger the internet gods!!!! or feel their wrath!!"

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It also begs an interesting question. What would happen if a country did this on purpose, but instead of doing it with youtube did it with a whole host of IP addresses? How long could this keep those sites down for before?
 
This is what happens when global censorship and oppresion screws up. We all tasted it for just that short moment. If this doesn't wake people up to the reality of countries under dictatorship, oppresion or censorship, then nothing ever will.

People are subjected to this kind of thing 24/7 and on far-ranging amount of sites and content. You thought losing youtube for a couple of hours was bad? Try losing part of google, bbcnews, sky, cnn, blogging capabilities and much more.
 
KNiVES said:
This is what happens when global censorship and oppresion screws up. We all tasted it for just that short moment. If this doesn't wake people up to the reality of countries under dictatorship, oppresion or censorship, then nothing ever will.

People are subjected to this kind of thing 24/7 and on far-ranging amount of sites and content. You thought losing youtube for a couple of hours was bad? Try losing part of google, bbcnews, sky, cnn, blogging capabilities and much more.
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Wouldn't happen, for long anyway, the ISP could hijack the space by announcing it but before long their peers would start filtering the announcements. Hell, I'd just kill the peering until they actually learnt something about routing - but I'm fairly militant about idiotic BGP peers.

In response to an earlier post, yes it does happen accidentally, really - because their engineers are as thick as two short planks.

Funny thing is, a large number of people have the ability to do this sort of thing (accidentally or otherwise). Small ISPs who take transit won't be able to because the transit providers will generally filter advertised routes to just their subnets. Any big ISP with lots of peers could cause chaos though, hell, I could - hows about I take down the bbc for a laugh?? ;)
 
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