Youtube no longer local

[Zewp]

Is Youtube still local or did the ISPs screw us over the same way they did with Facebook? I haven't been able to access Youtube on my local account at all.

 

[McGuywer]

Ip seems to be local.
196.23.168.147

More at http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=196.23.168.147&host=www.youtube.com

This is using Mweb uncapped.

 

[McGuywer]

Facebook is international for me:

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=69.63.190.18&host=www.facebook.com

 

[Defiler]

Youtube seems to be international for me (209.85.229.190) on mweb uncapped. No wonder I'm getting such crappy speeds when buffering, no faster than 100KB/s...

 

[Pada]

You can try forcing the YouTube DNS entries to the local server's IP address...

See http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...)-IP-address?p=4400956&viewfull=1#post4400956

I can perhaps ask Fragtion later on tonight to help me with Facebook zone.

 

[Tinuva]

Alright there are a few things you need to understand, just because the website points to an international ip address, doesn't mean the videos come from international.

So to test whether videos are from international or local, do a trace-route to v8.lscache2.c.youtube.com for example.

Here is an example of what I get (whilst the website is loading from international on my side):

C:\Users\Tinuva>tracert v8.lscache2.c.youtube.com

Tracing route to v8.lscache2.l.google.com [155.232.240.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     7 ms    <1 ms     9 ms  router.heaven.za.net [10.0.0.1]
  2    10 ms    17 ms    19 ms  dsl-61-83-1.dynamic.wa.co.za [41.61.83.1]
  3    22 ms    71 ms    23 ms  vl105.cr.gw.cpt.za.wa.co.za [196.220.59.250]
  4    12 ms    14 ms    11 ms  vl40.er.gw.cpt.za.wa.co.za [41.185.0.98]
  5    14 ms    11 ms    10 ms  tenet.cinx.net.za [198.32.214.33]
  6    26 ms    19 ms    19 ms  gc-cpt-bree-g21-23-31.uni.net.za [155.232.240.21]

Trace complete.

20ms is definitely local...