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YouTube
users question sanity, reality as service goes dark worldwide
17
October, 2018
YouTube
has suffered a massive outage, with users from all across the globe
rushing to alternative social media platforms to vent their
frustration and seek psychological support from fellow victims of
#YouTubeDOWN disaster.
The
video-sharing website experienced a service disruption across the
northeastern United States, as well as parts of the West and East
Coasts. Users in Australia, Mexico, Brazil and the EU have also been
affected, according to thousands of reports on
the Down Detector monitoring site. YouTube videos began
returning errors around 9pm EST. The site infrastructure was still
loading for users, but the videos themselves did not play
and were replaced by error messages imploring users
to “please
try again later.”
The
company soon acknowledged it had received many “reports of
access issues” about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube
Music. “We're working on resolving this and will let you
know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause
and will keep you updated,” it said in a tweet.
However,
it took the team of “highly
trained monkeys” –
as the company lovingly calls their engineers – more than an hour
to deal with the situation before users began reporting that the
service was reinstated.
Twitter
and Facebook erupted with traffic as users tried to figure out what
was going on, but no one seems to have solved the mystery yet.
Deprived of their ability to watch video clips, people did their best
with GIFs.
Meanwhile,
some users rushed to ‘alternative’ video-hosting websites, which
seem to have successfully withstood the sudden boost in traffic.
You don’t realize how much YouTube you actually watch until the site goes down.
Here is another slant on the story.
MASSIVE "IP-FRAGMENTATION" ATTACK WRECKS YOUTUBE & MUCH INTERNET
17
October, 2018
As
of about 9:30 PM eastern US time Tuesday, Internet giant Youtube
suddenly went offline. Shortly thereafter, other major sites, and
now many minor sites also went offline. Here's how the real-time
updates went as this story was covered live:
My
sources tell me there is a "G I G A N T I C"
"IP-fragmentation attack" taking place right now, and it is
wreaking havoc with large portions of the Internet, worldwide.
@TeamYouTube
Thanks
for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access
issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once
fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will
keep you updated.
9:41
PM - 16 Oct 2018
CHASE
BANK TOO?
Other
major sites are now gone too, and it appears CHASE BANK is now headed
down as well (HERE)
UPDATE
9:57 PM EDT --
According
to Digital Attack Map, much of the trouble worldwide SEEMS to be
emanating from . . . Saudi Arabia!
Could
it be the tiny kingdom doesn't like the world finding out their
government murdered a Journalist and cut him to pieces while he was
still alive? (Story Here) Could this be an actual act of military
sabotage against the global Internet to shut down the flow of
information the Saudis don't like?
Here's
the Digital Attack Map:
NOW
WELLS FARGO BANK TOO?
Wells
Fargo Bank seems to be going down now too . . . (HERE)
WESTERN
UNION (UK) DOWN
Western
Union seems to be going down globally too - multiple reports it si
down throughout the UK.
UPDATE
10:08 PM EDT --
Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is now the central source for DNS reflection
attacks. Something going down in KSA. They don't want info getting
in/out KSA.
UPDATE
11:24 PM EDT --
Internet
Routers are working to isolate the attacking networks. Trash
IP-Fragments and DNS-Reflections are being isolated. As a result,
large portions of the global Internet are returning to functionality.
Youtube was up and down several times, but appears to be back now.
No
official explanation for what took place. While it APPEARS to be
clearing out, whatever happened and whoever did it needs to be
determined.
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