Youtube CDN unreachable over IPv6

Dear Google,

It appears that one of the Youtube CDN's (in Europe, NL) is not
reachable over IPv6 from AS 20844. Can someone get back to us on this,
the company can't access any of the videos currently, although the
mainpage loads fine (over IPv6).

Kind regards,

Seth

telnet r6---sn-5hne6n76.googlevideo.com 443
Trying 2a00:1450:401c:4::b...
telnet: connect to address 2a00:1450:401c:4::b: Connection timed out
Trying 74.125.100.203...
Connected to r6.sn-5hne6n76.googlevideo.com (74.125.100.203).
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

telnet www.youtube.com 443
Trying 2a00:1450:4013:c01::5d...
Connected to youtube-ui.l.google.com (2a00:1450:4013:c01::5d).
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

It's not just you, I'm seeing the same thing from my home connection in AS3265. I think this started happening not long ago when Google had an issue with one of their AMS-IX connections.

% telnet -6 r7---sn-5hne6n7y.googlevideo.com 443
Trying 2a00:1450:401c:8::c...

I'm certain it's not AS3265 who is to blame here, an ISP I've had pretty much zero issues with over, IPv6 or otherwise, the many years I've been a customer.

  -- Niels.

* seth.mos@dds.nl (Seth Mos) [Fri 06 Nov 2015, 09:00 CET]:

The problem is on Google's side. From AS15879:

"""
[~]# telnet r7---sn-5hne6n7y.googlevideo.com 443
Trying 2a00:1450:401c:8::c...
telnet: connect to address 2a00:1450:401c:8::c: Connection timed out
Trying 173.194.153.76...
Connected to r7---sn-5hne6n7y.googlevideo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

[~]# telnet r1---sn-5hne6n7z.googlevideo.com 443
Trying 2a00:1450:401c:3::7...
telnet: connect to address 2a00:1450:401c:3::7: Connection timed out
Trying 74.125.8.55...
Connected to r1---sn-5hne6n7z.googlevideo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

[~]# telnet rijksoverheid.nl 443
Trying 2a00:d00:3:2::116...
Connected to rijksoverheid.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

quit

Connection closed.
"""

Thijs Stuurman
Infrastructure & Solutions

IS (internedservices) Group
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This was happening two weeks ago in the Bay Area as well. It happens quite
a lot, actually...search for my old threads. I gave up trying to get it
noticed.

Hi all,

Thanks for the reports.

To the best of our knowledge, this issue has been resolved at this
time. If you are still having problems connecting to YouTube CDN
nodes, please feel free to let me know, and I will investigate
further.

This was happening two weeks ago in the Bay Area as well. It happens quite
a lot, actually...search for my old threads. I gave up trying to get it
noticed.

Blair,

I'm not aware of a similar issue with IPv6 being unavailable while
IPv4 is available recently.

I did not see any threads with information in them with the name
"Blair" attached in either the October archive
(http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-October/thread.html) or
the September archive
(http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-September/thread.html)
.

If this issue is ongoing, I would be happy to look into this;
otherwise, I don't believe there is any action I can take to assist at
this time.

All the best.

It was 2014-05-17 on this list, and went on to be handled at GGC, where
it's come up now and then.

Hi all,

Thanks for the reports.

To the best of our knowledge, this issue has been resolved at this
time. If you are still having problems connecting to YouTube CDN
nodes, please feel free to let me know, and I will investigate
further.

It's here again since this tuesday.

lsintra:~# host r2---sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com
r2---sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com is an alias for
r2.sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com.
r2.sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com has address 62.214.62.205
r2.sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com has IPv6 address 2001:1438:1:2::d
lsintra:~# telnet 62.214.62.205 443
Trying 62.214.62.205...
Connected to cache.google.com (62.214.62.205).
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

quit

Connection closed.
lsintra:~# telnet 2001:1438:1:2::d 443
Trying 2001:1438:1:2::d...
^]quit
^]^[^]^C
lsintra:~#

Is it possible for Google to realize some form of internal monitoring to
catch these defunct dual stack nodes?

Kind regards,

Seth

A traceroute to both would help greatly in determining whether it's really
Google's fault, or if your ipv6 routing is borked.

I can reach the rest of the Google IPv6 services over IPv6, the player
loads, but the video stream does not.

I've pasted the traceroute below.

seth@ratchet:~$ traceroute 62.214.62.205
traceroute to 62.214.62.205 (62.214.62.205), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 edge-c2f.coltex.nl (91.227.27.41) 88.901 ms 88.932 ms 89.008 ms
2 91.227.27.3 (91.227.27.3) 0.522 ms 0.568 ms 0.628 ms
3 90-145-28-101.network.unet.nl (90.145.28.101) 2.104 ms 3.673 ms
3.665 ms
4 dus002isp005.versatel.de (80.249.209.109) 11.773 ms 11.612 ms
11.594 ms
5 10g-9-4.esn001isp005.versatel.de (62.214.110.234) 12.181 ms
12.306 ms 12. 416 ms
6 ge-05-01-803.dor002isp005.versatel.de (62.214.111.26) 12.174 ms
ge-5-1-853. dor002isp006.versatel.de
(62.214.111.30) 12.252 ms ge-05-01-803.dor002isp005.ve
               rsatel.de (62.214.111.26) 12.069 ms
7 dor2is2.versatel.de (62.214.104.170) 13.174 ms
fra20ip6.versatel.de (62.214 .104.174)
12.954 ms 13.159 ms
8 10g-9-4.hhb002isp005.versatel.de (62.214.110.110) 18.732 ms
10g-8-4.hhb002i sp005.versatel.de
(62.214.110.122) 19.051 ms 18.653 ms
9 * * *

seth@ratchet:~$ traceroute 2001:1438:1:2::d
traceroute to 2001:1438:1:2::d (2001:1438:1:2::d), 30 hops max, 80
byte packets
1 * * cltx-gw.coltex.nl (2001:67c:226c:ff00::1) 4.302 ms
2 2001:67c:226c:ff01::3 (2001:67c:226c:ff01::3) 0.418 ms 0.418 ms
0.451 ms
3 2a02:120:0:200::3:1 (2a02:120:0:200::3:1) 2.205 ms 2.376 ms
2.360 ms
4 dus002isp005.versatel.de (2001:7f8:1::a500:8881:1) 11.594 ms
11.364 ms 11.523 ms
5 2001:1438:0:1::4e2 (2001:1438:0:1::4e2) 12.522 ms
2001:1438:0:1::212 (2001:1438:0:1::212) 12.704 ms 2001:1438:0:1::222
(2001:1438:0:1::222) 12.676 ms
6 2001:1438:0:1::2a2 (2001:1438:0:1::2a2) 63.452 ms
2001:1438:0:1::2b2 (2001:1438:0:1::2b2) 63.572 ms 2001:1438:0:1::2a2
(2001:1438:0:1::2a2) 63.538 ms
7 2001:1438:0:1::112 (2001:1438:0:1::112) 13.318 ms 13.225 ms
2001:1438:0:1::522 (2001:1438:0:1::522) 13.087 ms
8 2001:1438:0:1::92 (2001:1438:0:1::92) 18.879 ms
2001:1438:0:1::172 (2001:1438:0:1::172) 19.088 ms 2001:1438:0:1::92
(2001:1438:0:1::92) 18.959 ms
9 * * *