youtube is acting wierd these days
sometime even low reso videos get stuck :/
also IDM shows this link while downloading videos
Code:
http://o-o.preferred.bhartibb-del1.v17.lscache6.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?
usually it shows something like
Code:
http://v7.cache7.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?
any suggestions?
P.s am using
google dns
In theory, anything streaming from a URL like
http://o-o.preferred.bhartibb-del1.v17.lscache6.c.youtube.com should stream fast. Let's break it down:
o-o = not sure
preferred = self explanatory? Bharti being India's largest supplier of International bandwidth probably makes them a preferred route.
bhartibb-del1 = bharti bb is Airtel, and probably refers to it's main AS number (AS9498), with del1 being probably the main NOC location in Delhi (some ISPs have more than one NOC in large cities for redundancy and so forth)
v17 = which server in the cabinet the video is being streamed from: v17 resolves to 122.160.89.17, v16 resolves to 122.160.89.25, v15 resolves to resolves to 122.160.89.22 and so forth, so I would suspect that this equals video server #17...
lscache6 = lscache is some kind of memcache inspired library called "localstorage" or something - there is every chance that Google has written something based on this or is using it directly...
c.youtube.com = youtube.com cdn
if you are using google public dns, how are you even getting airtel peering
i am on airtel and i am using google dns... i have not noticed any issues with youtube videos. have not noticed the source of the feed though.
Maybe Google's CDN/Cache is getting more sophisti-ma-cated nowadays - a little reverse IP lookups on Google's end could go a long way to determining performance if the IP resolves to a network which Google knows about - and as above, I presume Google knows about Airtel, and we know that Google is rather enthusiastic about providing a good user experience. Of course, I may be very wrong on all counts, but for me, the above URL resolves to a server in India itself: ABTS-North-Static-025.89.160.122.airtelbroadband.in [122.160.89.25]
Again, mostly theory, but looks pretty close.