Amazon?

Mon Aug 21 20:36:15 UTC 2006

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 at gmail.com>
> To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
> Cc: Jon R. Kibler <Jon.Kibler at aset.com>, nanog at 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 at cs.columbia.edu 
> <mailto:smb at cs.columbia.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:21:40 -0400, "Jon R. Kibler" <
>     Jon.Kibler at aset.com <mailto:Jon.Kibler at 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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