Question / Help Unable to Stream to youtube gaming

[Tekuzo]

When youtube gaming first launched I was able to use the service without any issue, then suddently last week I seem to be unable to stream to youtube gaming anymore.

OBS gives me the error that it is unable to connect to the server rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2

I am still able to stream to twitch without any issues, this only seems to be affecting youtube gaming.

Anybody else having issues streaming to youtube gaming? I have attached the log from my most recent attempt

 

[Gol D. Ace]

Your log doesn't show any streaming attempts.

Have you tried resetting the Stream Key in the Dashboard?
https://www.youtube.com/live_dashboard (Click Reveal then Reset)

 

[Tekuzo]

Just reset the stream key, OBS still gave me the "failed to connect to server" error message

 

[Gol D. Ace]

Yeah the error you're getting means you actually can't connect to the server.
When Twitch is working but YouTube not in the same program (not caused by Streamkey) I don't really know what to recommend here.

You can't try different Servers like on Twitch.

 

[Tekuzo]

Ya, i would like to try a different server, but I don't think that youtube gaming lets users do that.
Looks like I will just stick with Twitch for a while and maybe check back later.

 

[Tekuzo]

ok, looks like it might be a dns issue, ill see what I can do to fix it. now i feel really dumb.

 

[Tekuzo]

yup, switching dns providers fixed the issue.

I was using Google DNS in my router, 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 and that was causing the issue.
I switched to the dns service offered by my ISP and everything is working great now.