Gmail/Youtube

[Ted]

I don't use twitter but  went to have a look and sure enough, just text format. Flushed FF cache and it came up perfect. It's very quick and I can navigate around the site no problem, not that I have any idea what I'm doing. 

[Rik]

Me neither, Ted, it's one of those inventions I have yet to find a use for.

[Gary]

I follow stephen Fry and Dara Ó Briain, its great to see how certain people think and deal with day to day events, little pearls of wisdom from some, and some humour from others. 

[Simon_idnet]

Google have responded at last, to say that the problem should now be resolved and asking us to confirm. I've asked if they can let us know what caused the issue.

[zappaDPJ]

Thanks Simon, the problem does indeed seem to be resolved. My teenage daughter will be happy and life will be all good again  

[Rik]

 

[Gary]

I'm still using Norton DNS, and still wasting my bandwidth on old music videos, ahh the memories I have shattered revisiting a great song form twenty years back.

[Rik]

Sometimes they are best left there.

[Gary]

Sometimes they are best left there.

I so agree, Rik. 

[Simon_idnet]

Just had the following from Google: "It turned out to be misconfiguration issue on one of our servers and unfortunately you were pointed to use the faulty one."

[Rik]

Wasn't that nice of them, Simon.

[Gary]

Just had the following from Google: "It turned out to be misconfiguration issue on one of our servers and unfortunately you were pointed to use the faulty one."

Cheers Simon  

[Simon]

[Rik]

I think IDNet must be feeling paranoid by now. 

[Ted]

I think IDNet must be feeling paranoid by now. 

It's only paranoia when someone isn't out to get you! 

[Technical Ben]

I'm still using Norton DNS, and still wasting my bandwidth on old music videos, ahh the memories I have shattered revisiting a great song form twenty years back.

I can now officially say I remember songs from 20 years back. Although this one, must have been on the second release for me to remember it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXxMlIExpo
Does not shatter my memories, but then I only like it for the artistic music video.  

Oh, and thanks for the update too. Good to see it's not IDNets systems. Just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The google youtube server closes/assigned to them was the one to fail. Bit like when someone else breaks down in front of you in the road then.

[zappaDPJ]

For its time that was an outstanding video.

[Technical Ben]

Not like now where they may just press "sketch" in photoshop. They had to do it all by hand then.

[pctech]

Sounds like this problem has been particular to IDNet's peering session with Google as was not affected at all.

[Simon_idnet]

We peer with Google at both Lonap and Linx. We tried turning-off the peering over Lonap to force all traffic via Linx but that made no difference.

The problem was that we were getting occasional timeouts from a machine called s.ytimg.com which hosts lots of Youtube images (thumbnails etc). When those images are not served then pages hang.

Google give their DNS a Time To Live of 300 seconds so we have to go and ask them for new DNS data every 5 minutes. That's not a problem in itself but they were giving us different IP addresses for s.ytimg.com every 5 mins and some of those IP addresses worked but some did not. Mostly, their DNS resolves s.ytimg.com to an address in the range 173.194.5.0/24. We found that addresses above 173.194.5.110 and below 173.194.5.100 were OK but they were preferring to send us to addresses in the range 173.194.5.101 to 173.194.5.110 - which were broken.

Yesterday, they stopped announcing that range of addresses. I see that they are announcing them again today but that they are all now working again.

[pctech]

Glad its sorted and thanks for the explanations.

[Simon]

Indeed, thanks for the update, Simon. 

[Lance]

That explanation was really useful, thanks Simon.

[Rik]

First BT, now Google. Are you beginning to feel paranoid, Simon.

[pctech]

Bet he will if Google starts offering Internet access.