On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> >>> My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: >>> >>> 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) >>> 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to >>> advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... >>> 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an >>> address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an "error" >>> page (full of advertisements and "sponsored links"). You never know if >>> a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting >>> non-HTTP connections interesting. >>> >>> >>> >> >> I got the IP of the youtube I go to. Maybe try the IP number instead. >> >> http://64.15.120.233/ >> >> Hope that helps. > > That actually worked, sort of. The site and images all load using that > IP but videos are apparently served by another host because they get > stuck on the "loading" animation forever. I found a couple other > YouTube IPs on Google which also work: > > http://208.65.153.238/ > http://208.117.236.69/ > > These are the IPs I got for www.youtube.com: > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.100 > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.101 > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.102 > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.113 > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.138 > youtube-ui.l.google.com has address 72.14.213.139 > > So at least I'm getting a little closer. Going to try to find my ISP's > DNS servers and perform the lookups on them to see what the difference > is. > > Thanks, > Paul >
I believe I've solved it. I was using the level3 DNS servers (4.2.2.x) which return a different Youtube address than the other open DNS servers or running my own DNS server locally. So my guess is that maybe level3 (GTE, Verizon, whoever it actually is) has one of those special Google servers over on their network. Getting rid of those DNS servers has resolved the problem. Youtube is working normally again. Thanks all for the help.
