Unable to access YouTube
 

havent been able to visit the site for the past 2-3 days.
have tried both firefox and int explorer, but neither seem to work.
any suggestions?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

anybody?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

From a command prompt, type

ping www.youtube.com

and post the results.

In the meantime, there's always www.xtube.com

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

pinging www.youtube.com [XXX.XX.XXX.XXX] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping Stats for XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:
Packets: Sent = 4, Rec'd = 0, Lost =4 <100% loss>

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

Not sure why you're hiding the numbers, that's kind of the whole point. Is it 208.65.153.241?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

lol, they're not trying to hack you... they're trying to help you...

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

troll, others:

sorry for editing out the numbers.
thought i was just being cautious by leaving them out.
i was misinformed.

but yes the numbers listed by troll are correct.
208.65.153.241

any ideas?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

It's fine :-)

The name is resolving to the IP address correctly, so it's not a virus/adware DNS intrusion problem.

My best guess now is that there's some software installed on your PC that is blocking youtube.com... Any recent firewall/security stuff installed?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

troll,

nah, no recent firewall/security stuff added. i am on a university network. do you think they couldve killed access to youtube? is there anything else i can try to look for that will give me a headsup as to why i cant access the site?

Re: Unable to access YouTube
 

Open up the HOSTS file (search for 'hosts' and open it with notepad), see if there are any lines in there blocking YouTube. If so, delete them all.