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Amazon.com down

4 points by endersshadow 14y ago

You can check it out here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon.com Their health check for AWS is all green (http://status.aws.amazon.com/), though. I'm curious what the issue is, and if we'll hear anything about it. EDIT: Back up, now.

tokenadult 14y ago
This is the second time I've seen when someone has posted a http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ link here on HN to announce that a major site is down, when it is NOT down for me. Amazon.com is working just fine for me. I've just been browsing around. What is the methodology of http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ that sometimes spoofs that site into reporting a major site is down? I'm having no trouble whatsoever navigating Amazon.com just now. After edit: I checked my personal website. It's up. But then, oops, I was told that Hacker News is down (even though it evidently isn't). What do you see when you follow this link? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com I just saw "It's not just you! http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com looks down from here. "Check another site?" P.P.S. I am in the midwestern United States. I was just browsing Amazon.com some more, and it is working great. Hacker News is still reported as down.
- endersshadow 14y ago
  This is what I got when I went to Amazon.com: http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png https://amazon.com https://amazon.com gives me an SSL error and then it can't resolve. What country are you in that you can see it? I'm on the Eastern seaboard of the US.
  - MikeW 14y ago
    Your DNS may be poisoned. I guess this is another positive argument for SSL cert pinning in browsers so you are less likely to accept the invalid cert
    - endersshadow 14y ago
      Back up now. The cert was pointing to www.amazon.com, so it was throwing an error for amazon.com. Then, it would generate an SSL Protocol error. Very odd behavior.
- rabidonrails 14y ago
  I'm in Chicago and I also get news.ycombinator.com as down, but it's obviously up as I can view it and comment on it.

Amazon.com down

4 points by endersshadow 14y ago

tokenadult 14y ago

This is the second time I've seen when someone has posted a http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ link here on HN to announce that a major site is down, when it is NOT down for me. Amazon.com is working just fine for me. I've just been browsing around. What is the methodology of http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ that sometimes spoofs that site into reporting a major site is down? I'm having no trouble whatsoever navigating Amazon.com just now. After edit: I checked my personal website. It's up. But then, oops, I was told that Hacker News is down (even though it evidently isn't). What do you see when you follow this link? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com I just saw "It's not just you! http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com looks down from here. "Check another site?" P.P.S. I am in the midwestern United States. I was just browsing Amazon.com some more, and it is working great. Hacker News is still reported as down.

endersshadow 14y ago
This is what I got when I went to Amazon.com: http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png https://amazon.com https://amazon.com gives me an SSL error and then it can't resolve. What country are you in that you can see it? I'm on the Eastern seaboard of the US.
- MikeW 14y ago
  Your DNS may be poisoned. I guess this is another positive argument for SSL cert pinning in browsers so you are less likely to accept the invalid cert
  - endersshadow 14y ago
    Back up now. The cert was pointing to www.amazon.com, so it was throwing an error for amazon.com. Then, it would generate an SSL Protocol error. Very odd behavior.
rabidonrails 14y ago
I'm in Chicago and I also get news.ycombinator.com as down, but it's obviously up as I can view it and comment on it.