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.
This is what you get at http://www.amazon.com/:
We're sorry!
An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.
If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
on the Amazon.com home page
Anyone know that is going on?
Jon Kibler
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
Intermittent application/load balancer issues perhaps?
-brandon
Things should be working again. Details and brief intro:
The company I work for handles their automated call processing
for them, amongst other things. We monitor a portion of their
network externally.
Amazon, from what I understand, was aware of the issue -- but have
not provided any details as to what the problem was.
Portions of Amazon-Target (www.target.com) may still be offline.
Thats strange I am not having any issues at all and I have tested it from 3 different peering points.
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
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