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Access Denied to Apple.com

153 points by kozkozkoz 11y ago

kozkozkoz 11y ago
The same moment when I was going to buy the new iphone 6s
- brunorsini 11y ago
  Yeah, pre orders start in just over 2 hours. This might be related to that
whitlock 11y ago
Someone violated read-only Friday.
stevecalifornia 11y ago
Here's my guess: Apple is using Akamai's cloud security service called Kona. They (Apple or their Kona team) pushed a bad config up and now that they know it's a bad config they are pushing a fix-- but it takes 45 minutes to replicate out to all the Akamai edge servers. I think it's Kona because the 403 Access Denied and the Akamai ref number. Also, I use the same service and always live in fear of something like this happening and taking 45 minutes to undo. There is a staging option...
- chinathrow 11y ago
  45min? And people pay for intervals that slow?
  - cdv2101 11y ago
    marketing magic, when you got ATS and only need smart people to set it up in any way you want (yahoo fucking does it) and still go to akamai
    - stephenr 11y ago
      ATS = Apache Traffic Server I assume? I still wonder why large companies continue to rely on third-party CDN's like this. It's hardly rocket science to operate a global network of reverse proxy cache servers, particularly when you only have to do it for your own network (i.e. no customer issues).
- cdv2101 11y ago
  >There is a staging option... staging. Where we are going we won't need no staging option...
corndoge 11y ago
Killed off the front page as soon as it hit >100 score. Went from being #1 to #148 within ten seconds.
NovaS1X 11y ago
Certainly this is the work of Microsoft working with Aliens.
gfsn54nsf 11y ago
Thus operational phase 2 begins...
secfirstmd 11y ago
Awaits first journalist to write a glowing story about how "Apple has revolutionised the 'Access Denied' page.
- rajeevk 11y ago
  > how "Apple has revolutionised the 'Access Denied' page Probably, the title would be "How Apple invented Access Denied page" - Minimalist Design - Only black and white. Colorful page may harm your eyes - Border-less design - Minimal but highly informative text on the page blah...blah..
- ewzimm 11y ago
  When Steve Jobs invented the computer, he envisioned a device which was accessible to anyone, a device to empower revolutionary magical thinking about the possibilities of access. But he also knew the limits of the networks developed by the establishment gray box technology industry and sought to imbue those networks with communication that would speak different, in a way they would understand. Along with Sir Jony Ive, he reinvented the "Access Denied" page by removing the skeuomorphic constraints, distilling them into a flat "Access Denied" message which spoke to everyone, empowering their engagement with their restricted access to unlock unlimited creative potential.
  - deleted 11y ago
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- wnevets 11y ago
  It's so clean. The UI is smooth like butter.
  - rancur 11y ago
    flawless use of negative space. this page is a real tour de force in efficiency
    - secfirstmd 11y ago
abalashov 11y ago
p0wned?
rebootthesystem 11y ago
"Siri, can you kill the Apple website" (oh, shit!)
verroq 11y ago
Who cares?
- a3voices 11y ago
  I used to do pager duty for a large consumer-facing company, so this is amusing to me.
dujiulun2006 11y ago
Now that's what we call innovation.
9ScoskEbci 11y ago
Works fine for me. What's the problem here?
- tamedimp123 11y ago
  its pwn3d, atleast in some regions.
Too 11y ago
zzzzz, just another pr stunt to pretend the demand is high. Just like hiring actors to stand in line outside the apple store every now and then. Or some sysadmin accidentally forgot to click enter somewhere. Nothing to see, move along.
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- signed0 11y ago
  This is because whois just searches for domains that start with the given argument by default. Try google.com, same result. What you actually want is `whois "domain apple.com"`.
  - deleted 11y ago
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- RKearney 11y ago
  First time using WHOIS? Ryans-iMac:~ ryan$ whois microsoft.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.EENGURRA.COM MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NICE.WHEN.TOASTED.COMKAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.MAKES.RICKARD.DRINK.SAMBUCA.0800CARRENTAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MATCHES.THIS.STRING.AT.KEYSIGNERS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.INSTALL-GENTOO.NET MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IM.ELITE.WANNABE.TOO.WWW.PLUS613.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IS.A.GREAT.COMPANY.ITREBAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM
arn 11y ago
Apple usually takes their store down prior to a big event (iPhone 6s pre-orders). This is the first major event since they integrated the store into their regular website (rather than having the store.apple.com subdomain) Clearly, this is a mistake as they are deploying all the new pre-ordering pages for the iPhone 6s.
sergers 11y ago
How's this front page material on HN... Oh no, apple.com is unavailable - breaking news, affects noone?
- dclowd9901 11y ago
  Not for nothing, it's a pretty rare occurrence to see a triple-a company with a white page error on its home domain, like seeing a whale or something.
  - sergers 11y ago
    its not the first time for this to occur (to other sites and apple earliar this year atleast) and has been answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207316 akamai issue and the hash is a time stamp
- veb 11y ago
  I'm interested in their References -- it looks like each hit is a new hash, so they store that so they can refer to it. I don't know much about this side of stuff so it'll be interesting to know why they do that, or what the upside is.
  - TheDong 11y ago
    It's probably just sent as context along the whole chain of requests and logged in wire logs. Those sorts of request ids are usually just for piecing back together what happened from logfiles in my experience.
- jhiesey 11y ago
  It makes my Sauce Labs tests on iOS devices fail, and I bet other people's fail as well. I think the simulators usually try to load apple.com for some reason before the page under test, so it might just be selenium waiting forever for apple.com to load.
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ab 11y ago
The white "Access Denied" page is to help you empathize with Jony Ive, still trapped in a white room after all these years. https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-white-room https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-white-...
legohead 11y ago
A moment of silence for our fellow web developer/sysadmin who is on-call...
- confluence 11y ago
  From now until his death, he will rest in peace no longer.
  - hanlec 11y ago
    If it gets back online in time, it'll be a story to be told. If not, then :-(
- mholt 11y ago
  Huh, you've been quoted on Twitter! https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/642578143052587008 https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/642578143052587008
markchristian 11y ago
Someone who works for Apple — someone who is probably a lot like you and me — is having a really shitty night. So, I am sending good luck vibes towards Cupertino right now. Godspeed, Apple friends! ️
- icpmacdo 11y ago
  If it has been offline for 1 hour now, do you think it is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is sales that were not processed in the timeframe.
  - hanlec 11y ago
    The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for. As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I don't think the Apple store has the same risks as the other stores (the fact you don't buy the Mac directly from Apple doesn't really affect their revenue).
  - Splines 11y ago
    I don't think the impact is that severe. If you're planning on buying an Apple, and you visit apple.com and it's not up, then you wait until it's back up. Consistent downtime can damage a brand, but this is just a hiccup.
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- rancur 11y ago
  Their phones aren't the only thing limited to 1GB RAM
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jvolkman 11y ago
I've seen this error before from other sites and it seems to be generated by Akamai rather than the apple.com origin. Does anyone with Akamai experience know under what conditions this message would be returned? Did someone at apple accidentally ACL off the planet?
- stevecalifornia 11y ago
  This happens when a company uses Akamai's security product and you violate the security policy in place. It's basically a WAF. The big issue is it takes 45 minutes for changes to propagate through Akamai's network. So, you make a mistake and it takes fix time + 45 minutes to resolve.
- veb 11y ago
  I posted my comment before to the wrong commenter, but: I'm interested in their References -- it looks like each hit is a new hash, so they store that so they can refer to it. I don't know much about this side of stuff so it'll be interesting to know why they do that, or what the upside is of doing it that way...
  - kevan 11y ago
    Akamai does indeed give unique reference codes for errors like these. There's a management interface where you can look up more info on what happened for each code, but in my experience lookup time is proportional to the time since the error happened.
cozzyd 11y ago
The most walled of walled gardens.
userbinator 11y ago
I've seen this same style of error message before. It's the AkamaiGhost CDN. (Look at the Server: header in the response.) I suppose you could say the server has given up the ghost... Googling "AkamaiGhost 403" shows that other sites have experienced the same problems with them before in the past, so I wouldn't particularly blame Apple for this.
- cdv2101 11y ago
  this guy know what's up.
krammer 11y ago
Funny to find this on the front page on HN, just got notified by Hooks app! Lol
- kozkozkoz 11y ago
  Me too!
  - krammer 11y ago
    Yeah, this app is really real-time, got you to the frontpage on HN!
    - kozkozkoz 11y ago
      Yeah, I've posted just after I received a notification from Hooks :) Got lucky
grumpykitten 11y ago
http://images.apple.com/ http://images.apple.com/ appears to be still be up though
borski 11y ago
Looks like iMessage is down too... someone is having a horrendous night.
- eridius 11y ago
  Works fine here. I think it's on your end.
jdmaurer 11y ago
Crap, now I can't stare at pictures of the 6s, wondering if it will be 6s-ful... #applepunsfordays On a more serious note, it seems strange they wouldn't have failover environments for just such occasions... Maybe @Too is on to something, and this is a new way for big companies to drive traffic to their sites prior to a big launch. Genius.
- mholt 11y ago
  That pun actually made me laugh though. (Impressed that you turned a number and a letter into a full word pun.)
gedy 11y ago
You are supposed to use the Apple app, not that old web stuff.
Animats 11y ago
Does this take down any important service, or just access to Apple's corporate web site?
- lukashed 11y ago
  If you consider their store an important service, then yes.
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bentruyman 11y ago
It's back up
Watabou 11y ago
It's back up for me.
calin2k 11y ago
also a reddit discussion about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207403
github-cat 11y ago
The service seems back to normal now.
cdv2101 11y ago
It's back up now, but RIP CDN / Traffic Management team @ apple.
0942v8653 11y ago
For anyone else who got here late: http://web.archive.org/web/20150912044113/http://apple.com http://web.archive.org/web/20150912044113/http://apple.com

153 points by kozkozkoz 11y ago

kozkozkoz 11y ago

The same moment when I was going to buy the new iphone 6s

brunorsini 11y ago
Yeah, pre orders start in just over 2 hours. This might be related to that

whitlock 11y ago

Someone violated read-only Friday.

stevecalifornia 11y ago

Here's my guess: Apple is using Akamai's cloud security service called Kona. They (Apple or their Kona team) pushed a bad config up and now that they know it's a bad config they are pushing a fix-- but it takes 45 minutes to replicate out to all the Akamai edge servers. I think it's Kona because the 403 Access Denied and the Akamai ref number. Also, I use the same service and always live in fear of something like this happening and taking 45 minutes to undo. There is a staging option...

chinathrow 11y ago
45min? And people pay for intervals that slow?
- cdv2101 11y ago
  marketing magic, when you got ATS and only need smart people to set it up in any way you want (yahoo fucking does it) and still go to akamai
  - stephenr 11y ago
    ATS = Apache Traffic Server I assume? I still wonder why large companies continue to rely on third-party CDN's like this. It's hardly rocket science to operate a global network of reverse proxy cache servers, particularly when you only have to do it for your own network (i.e. no customer issues).
cdv2101 11y ago
>There is a staging option... staging. Where we are going we won't need no staging option...

corndoge 11y ago

Killed off the front page as soon as it hit >100 score. Went from being #1 to #148 within ten seconds.

NovaS1X 11y ago

Certainly this is the work of Microsoft working with Aliens.

gfsn54nsf 11y ago

Thus operational phase 2 begins...

secfirstmd 11y ago

Awaits first journalist to write a glowing story about how "Apple has revolutionised the 'Access Denied' page.

rajeevk 11y ago
> how "Apple has revolutionised the 'Access Denied' page Probably, the title would be "How Apple invented Access Denied page" - Minimalist Design - Only black and white. Colorful page may harm your eyes - Border-less design - Minimal but highly informative text on the page blah...blah..
ewzimm 11y ago
When Steve Jobs invented the computer, he envisioned a device which was accessible to anyone, a device to empower revolutionary magical thinking about the possibilities of access. But he also knew the limits of the networks developed by the establishment gray box technology industry and sought to imbue those networks with communication that would speak different, in a way they would understand. Along with Sir Jony Ive, he reinvented the "Access Denied" page by removing the skeuomorphic constraints, distilling them into a flat "Access Denied" message which spoke to everyone, empowering their engagement with their restricted access to unlock unlimited creative potential.
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wnevets 11y ago
It's so clean. The UI is smooth like butter.
- rancur 11y ago
  flawless use of negative space. this page is a real tour de force in efficiency
  - secfirstmd 11y ago

abalashov 11y ago

p0wned?

rebootthesystem 11y ago

"Siri, can you kill the Apple website" (oh, shit!)

verroq 11y ago

Who cares?

a3voices 11y ago
I used to do pager duty for a large consumer-facing company, so this is amusing to me.

dujiulun2006 11y ago

Now that's what we call innovation.

9ScoskEbci 11y ago

Works fine for me. What's the problem here?

tamedimp123 11y ago
its pwn3d, atleast in some regions.

Too 11y ago

zzzzz, just another pr stunt to pretend the demand is high. Just like hiring actors to stand in line outside the apple store every now and then. Or some sysadmin accidentally forgot to click enter somewhere. Nothing to see, move along.

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signed0 11y ago
This is because whois just searches for domains that start with the given argument by default. Try google.com, same result. What you actually want is `whois "domain apple.com"`.
- deleted 11y ago
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RKearney 11y ago
First time using WHOIS? Ryans-iMac:~ ryan$ whois microsoft.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.EENGURRA.COM MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NICE.WHEN.TOASTED.COMKAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.MAKES.RICKARD.DRINK.SAMBUCA.0800CARRENTAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MATCHES.THIS.STRING.AT.KEYSIGNERS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.INSTALL-GENTOO.NET MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IM.ELITE.WANNABE.TOO.WWW.PLUS613.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IS.A.GREAT.COMPANY.ITREBAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM

arn 11y ago

Apple usually takes their store down prior to a big event (iPhone 6s pre-orders). This is the first major event since they integrated the store into their regular website (rather than having the store.apple.com subdomain) Clearly, this is a mistake as they are deploying all the new pre-ordering pages for the iPhone 6s.

sergers 11y ago

How's this front page material on HN... Oh no, apple.com is unavailable - breaking news, affects noone?

dclowd9901 11y ago
Not for nothing, it's a pretty rare occurrence to see a triple-a company with a white page error on its home domain, like seeing a whale or something.
- sergers 11y ago
  its not the first time for this to occur (to other sites and apple earliar this year atleast) and has been answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207316 akamai issue and the hash is a time stamp
veb 11y ago
I'm interested in their References -- it looks like each hit is a new hash, so they store that so they can refer to it. I don't know much about this side of stuff so it'll be interesting to know why they do that, or what the upside is.
- TheDong 11y ago
  It's probably just sent as context along the whole chain of requests and logged in wire logs. Those sorts of request ids are usually just for piecing back together what happened from logfiles in my experience.
jhiesey 11y ago
It makes my Sauce Labs tests on iOS devices fail, and I bet other people's fail as well. I think the simulators usually try to load apple.com for some reason before the page under test, so it might just be selenium waiting forever for apple.com to load.
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ab 11y ago

The white "Access Denied" page is to help you empathize with Jony Ive, still trapped in a white room after all these years. https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-white-room https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-white-...

legohead 11y ago

A moment of silence for our fellow web developer/sysadmin who is on-call...

confluence 11y ago
From now until his death, he will rest in peace no longer.
- hanlec 11y ago
  If it gets back online in time, it'll be a story to be told. If not, then :-(
mholt 11y ago
Huh, you've been quoted on Twitter! https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/642578143052587008 https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/642578143052587008

markchristian 11y ago

Someone who works for Apple — someone who is probably a lot like you and me — is having a really shitty night. So, I am sending good luck vibes towards Cupertino right now. Godspeed, Apple friends! ️

icpmacdo 11y ago
If it has been offline for 1 hour now, do you think it is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is sales that were not processed in the timeframe.
- hanlec 11y ago
  The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for. As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I don't think the Apple store has the same risks as the other stores (the fact you don't buy the Mac directly from Apple doesn't really affect their revenue).
- Splines 11y ago
  I don't think the impact is that severe. If you're planning on buying an Apple, and you visit apple.com and it's not up, then you wait until it's back up. Consistent downtime can damage a brand, but this is just a hiccup.
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rancur 11y ago
Their phones aren't the only thing limited to 1GB RAM

deleted 11y ago

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jvolkman 11y ago

I've seen this error before from other sites and it seems to be generated by Akamai rather than the apple.com origin. Does anyone with Akamai experience know under what conditions this message would be returned? Did someone at apple accidentally ACL off the planet?

stevecalifornia 11y ago
This happens when a company uses Akamai's security product and you violate the security policy in place. It's basically a WAF. The big issue is it takes 45 minutes for changes to propagate through Akamai's network. So, you make a mistake and it takes fix time + 45 minutes to resolve.
veb 11y ago
I posted my comment before to the wrong commenter, but: I'm interested in their References -- it looks like each hit is a new hash, so they store that so they can refer to it. I don't know much about this side of stuff so it'll be interesting to know why they do that, or what the upside is of doing it that way...
- kevan 11y ago
  Akamai does indeed give unique reference codes for errors like these. There's a management interface where you can look up more info on what happened for each code, but in my experience lookup time is proportional to the time since the error happened.

cozzyd 11y ago

The most walled of walled gardens.

userbinator 11y ago

I've seen this same style of error message before. It's the AkamaiGhost CDN. (Look at the Server: header in the response.) I suppose you could say the server has given up the ghost... Googling "AkamaiGhost 403" shows that other sites have experienced the same problems with them before in the past, so I wouldn't particularly blame Apple for this.

cdv2101 11y ago
this guy know what's up.

krammer 11y ago

Funny to find this on the front page on HN, just got notified by Hooks app! Lol

kozkozkoz 11y ago
Me too!
- krammer 11y ago
  Yeah, this app is really real-time, got you to the frontpage on HN!
  - kozkozkoz 11y ago
    Yeah, I've posted just after I received a notification from Hooks :) Got lucky

grumpykitten 11y ago

http://images.apple.com/ http://images.apple.com/ appears to be still be up though

borski 11y ago

Looks like iMessage is down too... someone is having a horrendous night.

eridius 11y ago
Works fine here. I think it's on your end.

jdmaurer 11y ago

Crap, now I can't stare at pictures of the 6s, wondering if it will be 6s-ful... #applepunsfordays On a more serious note, it seems strange they wouldn't have failover environments for just such occasions... Maybe @Too is on to something, and this is a new way for big companies to drive traffic to their sites prior to a big launch. Genius.

mholt 11y ago
That pun actually made me laugh though. (Impressed that you turned a number and a letter into a full word pun.)

gedy 11y ago

You are supposed to use the Apple app, not that old web stuff.

Animats 11y ago

Does this take down any important service, or just access to Apple's corporate web site?

lukashed 11y ago
If you consider their store an important service, then yes.

deleted 11y ago

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bentruyman 11y ago

It's back up

Watabou 11y ago

It's back up for me.

calin2k 11y ago

also a reddit discussion about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207403

github-cat 11y ago

The service seems back to normal now.

cdv2101 11y ago

It's back up now, but RIP CDN / Traffic Management team @ apple.

0942v8653 11y ago

For anyone else who got here late: http://web.archive.org/web/20150912044113/http://apple.com http://web.archive.org/web/20150912044113/http://apple.com