[91919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Amazon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon R. Kibler)
Mon Aug 21 16:37:59 2006
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:36:15 -0400
From: "Jon R. Kibler" <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>
To: Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org>
Cc: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
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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>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brandon Galbraith
> Email: brandon.galbraith@gmail.com <mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
> AIM: brandong00
> Voice: 630.400.6992
> "A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. Yarrrr.
> --thelost"
>
>
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