Ask HN: What caused the worldwide outage on YouTube yesterday?

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Does anyone here on HN know what caused the nearly worldwide outage on YouTube yesterday (November 11, 2020)?

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Nothing from Youtube officially yet. Probably BGP.
If it's BGP, wouldn't it be known by outside parties, since it is logged and viewed by, for example, Cisco and Cloudflare? (Also from my personal experience on the outage, I can reach the video server but it timeouts with a proper error code, so it signals that it is beyond external-facing networking. So either bad internal networking or more likely a bad config change or stack deployment.)
Bad Config file. Don’t ask
When I was at google there were a couple of times that "big services" went down. Every time the service was actually up, some change or another broke the connection from the gateway to the internal system. It's probably that. If it was just a bad push of a single component, usually you can revert it. If you push a bad gateway config, maybe the gateways are crashing so much you can't roll back.
AN elephant sat on the fiber line in New Delhi...
The photons got flattened out and were too wide to fit through the receivers in the SFP's.
probably got dizzy in the 1000+ aqi air. smh