Comments on: YouTube is Gone http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php Sound Strategies for Building an Online Business You Can Retire On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kelly http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59739 Kelly Thu, 08 May 2008 06:21:07 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59739 In my country Youtube has been several times being banned for a short period. I am not so clear what was the reason...So, I thought Youtube was gone yesterday because of this problem too. In my country Youtube has been several times being banned for a short period. I am not so clear what was the reason…So, I thought Youtube was gone yesterday because of this problem too.

]]> By: Ilia http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59727 Ilia Sat, 03 May 2008 18:45:04 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59727 OMG! The end of the world is near! :D OMG! The end of the world is near! :D

]]> By: Ruitu http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59723 Ruitu Sat, 03 May 2008 15:20:49 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59723 LOL...surely a rememberable weekend for YouTube folks oops Google folks :D LOL…surely a rememberable weekend for YouTube folks oops Google folks :D

]]> By: David Moylan http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59721 David Moylan Sat, 03 May 2008 15:17:59 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59721 @shane one last comment regarding network solutions and their "database last updated" line. this isn't the last date/time that the DOMAIN data was updated, it's actually designed to show you how fresh the result from the WHOIS query is. i just did a whole pile of WHOIS requests for youtube.com and watched the time increment! also of interest was that one of the whois lookups in the middle had a time of a few hours prior, so this was obviously slightly older cached data being returned by a different box. i only just worked this out now and thought it might be interesting for further reference. cheers :-) @shane one last comment regarding network solutions and their “database last updated” line. this isn’t the last date/time that the DOMAIN data was updated, it’s actually designed to show you how fresh the result from the WHOIS query is. i just did a whole pile of WHOIS requests for youtube.com and watched the time increment! also of interest was that one of the whois lookups in the middle had a time of a few hours prior, so this was obviously slightly older cached data being returned by a different box. i only just worked this out now and thought it might be interesting for further reference. cheers :-)

]]> By: Shane http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59718 Shane Sat, 03 May 2008 15:11:35 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59718 HA! That's not hard to picture at all. Man, I've certainly been there. HA! That’s not hard to picture at all. Man, I’ve certainly been there.

]]> By: David Moylan http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59717 David Moylan Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:10 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59717 @shane @ruitu my personal belief is that some poor soul at youtube/google has been sweating hard over the past few hours. being a support engineer myself, i can already picture some dude pacing the floor in the early AM of today sweating it and muttering "crap ... the nameservers *WON'T BOOT* and my backup *DOESN'T WORK*". it wouldn't surprise me if a broken raid card, router or some "misconfiguration" (read as: erased config!) was the core fault of this outage. always remember that most problems have 10 fingers attached :-) @shane @ruitu my personal belief is that some poor soul at youtube/google has been sweating hard over the past few hours. being a support engineer myself, i can already picture some dude pacing the floor in the early AM of today sweating it and muttering “crap … the nameservers *WON’T BOOT* and my backup *DOESN’T WORK*”. it wouldn’t surprise me if a broken raid card, router or some “misconfiguration” (read as: erased config!) was the core fault of this outage. always remember that most problems have 10 fingers attached :-)

]]> By: Ruitu http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59716 Ruitu Sat, 03 May 2008 15:05:14 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59716 @David I believe they might be editing the domain names to avoid spammer attacks. Well, YouTube is back now :) @David

I believe they might be editing the domain names to avoid spammer attacks. Well, YouTube is back now :)

]]> By: Shane http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59715 Shane Sat, 03 May 2008 15:05:12 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59715 @David: well there you go. If their two registered name servers weren't responding to requests, that would certainly be the primary issue. Thanks! And I'll update the post above once again :) @David: well there you go. If their two registered name servers weren’t responding to requests, that would certainly be the primary issue. Thanks! And I’ll update the post above once again :)

]]> By: David Moylan http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59714 David Moylan Sat, 03 May 2008 15:03:22 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59714 @shane i diagnosed the problem when i first noticed youtube was down many hours ago. the domain was in perfect order, but the two registered nameservers were not responding to any requests. irrespective of the domain status, the nameservers should have been responding to DIRECT requests. i understand if the domain was in a state of suspension that the base nameservers would have not been resolvable, but this still would not prevent direct access to the nameservers themselves. this is essentially why a domain can "stay alive" for an extended period of time even after grace expires. @shane i diagnosed the problem when i first noticed youtube was down many hours ago. the domain was in perfect order, but the two registered nameservers were not responding to any requests. irrespective of the domain status, the nameservers should have been responding to DIRECT requests. i understand if the domain was in a state of suspension that the base nameservers would have not been resolvable, but this still would not prevent direct access to the nameservers themselves. this is essentially why a domain can “stay alive” for an extended period of time even after grace expires.

]]> By: Shane http://www.askshane.org/news-links/youtube-is-gone.php/comment-page-1#comment-59713 Shane Sat, 03 May 2008 15:02:15 +0000 http://www.askshane.org/?p=257#comment-59713 @David: that's a great explanation for the "hacked" results and certainly makes sense. Thanks! I have updated the post above. @David: that’s a great explanation for the “hacked” results and certainly makes sense. Thanks! I have updated the post above.

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