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RE: Amazon?


From: "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson () aninetworks com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:51:18 -0700


That whois stuff is meaningless.  When are people going to get it that
it really isn't a "hack".

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
Behalf Of Jon R. Kibler
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:36 PM
To: Elijah Savage
Cc: Brandon Galbraith; nanog () nanog org; Steven M. Bellovin
Subject: Re: Amazon?

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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