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Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?

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Maybe it's a brain teaser - if you can answer how to DDoS Youtube, they'll call you up for an interview.

I could tell you a few ways, but would never work for them out of principle. They can find their own bugs.

Yeah i feel like a DDoS that big would be afecting other google services right now...

A few hundred AI learning instances were started to train on youtube videos to "understand" humanity. They have become self aware and started to consume double amount of CPU/GPU/Disk/RAM/Network resource every few seconds - a skynet/super nova moment.

Would it involve hitting whoever/whatever handles their DNS like that one attack about a year ago?

FYI: I legit am retarded to such things and my networking knowledge is...meh. So please correct me.

DNS is resolving because people can get to the site. Because of the distributed nature of YouTube's resources (at DNS as well as other layers), it's very unlikely to be DDoS related. Static content loads, but video content doesn't. Seems like an application error, or a problem with media streaming infrastructure.

I suppose if you had something new and incredibly powerful, this would be a great way to show it off.

Still more likely that YT just made an oopsie.

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