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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: rdfcpete on December 12, 2010, 09:01:24 pm

Title: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: rdfcpete on December 12, 2010, 09:01:24 pm
Can you guys access amazon.co.uk?

Assuming it's not just me. Page times out and never loads. Is this perhaps related to the W-leak stuff that's been in the press lately?
I don't get a ping back from amazon.co.uk either, so it seems truly offline.

Amazon.com works but as far as I know that won't let me sign in with a UK account? May be wrong.

Typical that I did all my Christmas shopping on Amazon and nowhere else :grin:
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Richn83 on December 12, 2010, 09:08:48 pm
yeah amazon.co.uk not responding.
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: rdfcpete on December 12, 2010, 09:21:41 pm
Hmm, cheers Rich. Glad it's a global problem in that sense.

Been about an hour now since trying. Maintenance or an attack?  :confused: I know the leaks guys were threatening a few e-brands that included amazon, paypal etc...
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Greeners on December 12, 2010, 09:24:01 pm
Strange as I was just tracking an order on there not 20 mins ago and all was good!  :confused:
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: rdfcpete on December 12, 2010, 09:25:08 pm
 :confused:

Maybe a cache thing if you were already signed in + active etc Nath?
Can you access it from fresh now?
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Richn83 on December 12, 2010, 09:25:57 pm
tracerouted from my company looking glass, seems that its possible to reach the amazon gateway in Ireland so seems to be a server issue so I suppose it could be a DDOS type attack, but with the size of the amazon infrastructure (S3) I would be incredibly suprised if someone would be able to manage to kill it for long!

Looking Glass Results: Telehouse North

Query: trace
Addr: www.amazon.co.uk

trace www.amazon.co.uk
Translating "www.amazon.co.uk"
...domain server (64.235.225.54) [OK]

Type Ctrl-C to abort.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tracing the route to www.amazon.co.uk (178.236.4.29), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 TTL Hostname            Probe1      Probe2      Probe3      
  1  Port-Channel100.asr1.LON2.gblx.net (64.209.95.173) 001.000 ms  001.000 ms  000.000 ms  
  2  xe-0-0-0.lon10.ip4.tinet.net (213.200.77.233) 015.000 ms  016.000 ms  035.000 ms  
  3  xe-2-0-0.dub10.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.186.198) 035.000 ms  035.000 ms  017.000 ms  
  4  amazon-gw.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.75.62) 018.000 ms  073.000 ms  
     amazon-ireland-gw.ip4.tinet.net (213.200.67.30) 035.000 ms  
  5  178.236.0.196        035.000 ms  
     178.236.0.194        016.000 ms  019.000 ms  
  6  178.236.0.68         018.000 ms  032.000 ms  035.000 ms  
  7  178.236.0.67         017.000 ms  096.000 ms  028.000 ms  
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Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Greeners on December 12, 2010, 09:28:23 pm
:confused:

Maybe a cache thing if you were already signed in + active etc Nath?
Can you access it from fresh now?

Nope it's gone now alright!
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: stealthwolf on December 13, 2010, 06:22:55 am
Apparently, it was an attack by wikileaks supporters.
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Poppa Dom on December 13, 2010, 08:03:51 am
No, they took it down as they feared a cyber attack.
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: wigit on December 13, 2010, 11:30:09 am
No, they took it down as they feared a cyber attack.

and there was me thinking it was the wife who crashed it with the sheer volume of presents she was ordering for me  :sad1:
Title: Re: Amazon.co.uk Offline?
Post by: Poppa Dom on December 13, 2010, 11:31:12 am
Wishful thinking Andy!