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That whois stuff is meaningless. When are people going to get it that it really isn't a "hack". > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jon R. Kibler > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:36 PM > To: Elijah Savage > Cc: Brandon Galbraith; [email protected]; 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 <[email protected]> > > To: Steven M. Bellovin <[email protected]> > > Cc: Jon R. Kibler <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > 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* <[email protected]xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:21:40 -0400, "Jon R. Kibler" < > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > 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: [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > AIM: brandong00 > > Voice: 630.400.6992 > > "A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the > yard-arm. Yarrrr. > > --thelost" > > > > > > > > ================================================== > > Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service > > http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email. > > > > -- > Jon R. Kibler > Chief Technical Officer > Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. > Charleston, SC USA > (843) 849-8214 > > > > > > ================================================== > Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service > http://www.trustem.com/ > No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email. > >
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