[86737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: paypal down!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Day)
Tue Nov 15 22:58:22 2005
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A01444D97@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:58:11 -0600
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>>> www.paypal.com
>>>
>>> Internal Server Error
>>>
>>> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
>>> unable to complete your request.
>>>
>>> Please contact the server administrator,
>> webmaster@paypal.com and inform
>>> them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
>> have done
>>> that may have caused the error.
>>>
>>> More information about this error may be available in the
>> server error
>>> log.
>>
>> Works for me. Same BS splash advertising that always comes
>> up. Damn that
>> is annoying.
>>
>
> Yes, but it *is* up. Same here. Probably one of the rotation web
> servers had
> an issue or something minor.
>
Or there's a chance that you've got a trojan/malware install on the
computer.
I had someone contact me the other day with a nearly identical
complaint, "Why have PayPal and eBay been down all day?" They were
alternately getting a 404 or 503 for those sites, but everything else
worked. Their hosts file had entries for ebay, google, a number of
banks, common phishing targets. Even more fun was when I deleted the
hosts file, after his next reboot it pulled an updated hosts file
with new working IPs from somewhere.
I'm guessing the malware phishers don't have a five-nines array of
redundant proxies yet. :)
