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    Can't connect to youtube

    I've got one heck of a wierd problem, and that is that i cannot connect to Youtube.

    However, every other website i try to connect to, i can connect to perfectly well.


    Does anyone have any ideas?

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Can you resolve the name? (Open a command prompt and type "nslookup www.youtube.com")
    Other than that, you don't live in Pakistan do you?

    BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Pakistan blocks YouTube website

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Haha, I'm 100% sure i don't live in Pakistan.

    After typing in "nslookup www.youtube.com" in cmd, i got this:

    "DNS Request Timed Out"

    So, i'm guessing that it can't resolve the name (not too up to scratch with this sort of thing)

    Any ideas on how to rectify this?

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    Last edited by Nick Smith; 24-02-2008 at 07:48 PM.

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    I can't access it either, I'm on Virgin Media . . . I accessed it earlier today, but have just tried.

    Maybe short DNS downage...

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by ACiD303 View Post
    I can't access it either, I'm on Virgin Media . . . I accessed it earlier today, but have just tried.

    Maybe short DNS downage...
    My mate who's on VM can't either

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Same problem here, I am with BeThere

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Virgin Media's DNS gets DoS'd all the time, use OpenDNS's servers instead.

    https://www.opendns.com/start

    Nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

    hth.

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by scruffy View Post
    Virgin Media's DNS gets DoS'd all the time, use OpenDNS's servers instead.

    https://www.opendns.com/start

    Nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

    hth.
    I can't connect to that either!

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    working fine here, am on Be

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by scruffy View Post
    Virgin Media's DNS gets DoS'd all the time
    They get DoSd, or are just crap?

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    They get DoSd, or are just crap?
    Bit of both I reckon . . .

    Youtube is working again

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    They get DoSd, or are just crap?
    Meh, a little from column "A" and a little from "B". Probably fallen over with the massive upsurge of newly upgraded 10mb connections seeking out DNS for P2P apps, before the restrictions come in.

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Actually, scrub that. Looks like VM's DNS wasn't to blame this time:

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Pakistan 'sparks YouTube outage'

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Quote Originally Posted by Viper81 View Post
    Can you resolve the name? (Open a command prompt and type "nslookup www.youtube.com")
    Other than that, you don't live in Pakistan do you?

    BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Pakistan blocks YouTube website
    lol, looks like I was right

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    Re: Can't connect to youtube

    Every so often Youtube seems to disapear from the net... Same with Hotmail - some people can access and others can't - the wierdness's of the world..

    ~Bex

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    Unhappy Re: Can't connect to youtube

    No youtube for me either. Oddly, I can watch embedded youtube videos. But, the same link won't work for me. 30 April, 2009 ~ 3:27pm (GMT-7)

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