Friday, June 6. 2008
Amazon Site Outage
Surprise! It looks like the Amazon website was not having a good Friday - it went off the air for over two hours (though it seems that this only affected US customers). Multiple theories abound about what actually happened (including the sale of the new PS3 game Metal Gear Solid 4), but so far all that Amazon is saying is:"Amazon's systems are very complex and on rare occasions, despite our best efforts, they may experience problems. We work to minimize any disruption and to get the site back as quickly as possible" Complex computer systems - really?  |  |
#1 - nc said:
2008-06-06 23:12 - (Reply)
imdb.com (an amazon asset) is still not resolving in dns.
sigh.
#1.1 - C Velo said:
2008-06-07 10:59 - (Reply)
That is a big one - I use that site almost religiously.
I am happy to say it seems to be working OK for me this morning.
#2 - nc said:
2008-06-07 11:05 - (Reply)
It looks like there are some funky issues.. on a Linux box, a 'dig +trace' fails, with a double-cname.. however, it seems to work under Windows. ODD.
#3 - RMA said:
2008-06-07 21:37 - (Reply)
Word is that there was a DDOS against IMDB concurrent with the Amazon outage.