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Re:YouTube Down by girst on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:47PM (#25064936)
doing a `curl -v https://redirector.googlevideo.com` (the host you'll connect to before getting redirected to the actual mp4/m4a streams) opens a tls connection (and gives a cert), but it then hangs for two minutes, before returning a 502.

i'd wager some database storing info about the streams crashed :^D (given that it also crashes on /, it's more likely something else)

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Re:YouTube Down by birdyrooster on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:52PM (#25064988)
I remember hearing something like Google Global Cache proxies requests to Google datacenters so that retransmit times, due to last mile issues, are lower since packets do not need to travel all the way to the datacenter. My guess is that they might do HTTP TLS termination there, and when the backend failed to respond in time returned 502.
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Re:YouTube Down by girst on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:55PM (#25065015)
yep. thinking it over, that makes more sense. amended my comment
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Re:YouTube Down by steveseguin on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:20PM (#25065239)
Turns out Youtube-DL was being used by YouTube also. ;)
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Re:YouTube Down by girst on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:08PM (#25065123)
and now youtube.com/get_video_info, the undocumented endpoint for querying (among other things) streaming urls, is broken as well. returns "Video ID is invalid." or "An error occurred. Please try again later."
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