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Re: Amazon?


From: "Jon R. Kibler" <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:36:15 -0400

I am currently in the DC area. It appears that Amazon came up about 20 minutes ago.

SANS ISC has a little info on the problem. Quoting from http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1625 :
UPDATE:

Diligent Reader Corwin Grey points out:

"Amazon may be having more than a 'little' trouble. :/ Check out their whois:


  Server Name: AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
  IP Address: 80.190.192.24
  Registrar: KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH
  Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
  Referral URL: http://www.key-systems.net

 <snip>"

Now, amazon.com looks OK from a whois lookup at www.internic.net (record points to Network Solutions) and from a Network 
Solutions whois lookup.  But, it looks like we've got some whois database hijinks out there for some of the whois 
servers and the www.amazon.com info.

Reader Sean points out that these gulli folks do this kind of thing a lot to sites like Amazon.com, Microsoft, and 
others, and these whois hijinks are likely independent of the back-end problems that Amazon.com appears to be having.  
I agree.

I just now checked, and they seem to be back up...  so, intermittent problem fixed?  For now...  It's not the end of 
the world.

--Ed Skoudis
Intelguardians



Elijah Savage wrote:
Thats strange I am not having any issues at all and I have tested it from 3 different peering points.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>
Cc: Jon R. Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>, nanog () nanog org
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:42:21 PM GMT-0500
Subject: Re: Amazon?

Intermittent application/load balancer issues perhaps?

-brandon

On 8/21/06, *Steven M. Bellovin* <smb () cs columbia edu <mailto:smb () cs columbia edu>> wrote:


    On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:21:40 -0400, "Jon R. Kibler" <
    Jon.Kibler () aset com <mailto:Jon.Kibler () aset com>>
    wrote:

     > Hi,
     >
     > Anyone know what is up with Amazon? They appear to be down.
     >
     > Doesn't appear to be a network issue... tried from two different
    ISP's networks.
     >
    That's odd.  When I try from one path, I get the same error you get;
    when
    I try another, it works.  A tcptraceroute shows that both are ending
    up at
    the same IP address at Amazon, too.

                    --Steven M. Bellovin,
    http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb <http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Esmb>




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