RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] where is www.amazon.com?

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It could be something like Akamai that hosts content for them. They mess
with the DNS tables so your requests come from the closest cluster. If
something broke on a local cluster you may see something like that and
others would not. Amazon was working fine for me all day long. I checked
it, out of curiosity, every time I saw a message on this thread.

The www comes for free because you paid for the right to use amazon.com.
Then it all depends on where your own primary DNS server is, and who you
pay to manage it for you.

S-

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:discussion-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:37 PM
> To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] where is www.amazon.com?
> 
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >> Strangely, this doesn't work right now:
> >>
> >> # nslookup www.amazon.com
> >>
> >> This works:
> >>
> >> # nslookup amazon.com
> >> Server:  ns.nts.umn.edu
> >> Address:  128.101.101.101
> >>
> >> Non-authoritative answer:
> >> Name:    amazon.com
> >> Addresses:  72.21.203.1, 72.21.206.5, 72.21.210.11
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what that means, but from my desktop, Firefox can't
get to
> >> www.amazon.com and it can't do Amazon.com searches from the search
bar.
> >>
> >
> > Amazon must have forgotten to pay their bill.  I remember MS did
this a
> > while back.
> 
> 
> I remember Microsoft's problem.  But isn't payment made for the
amazon.com
> part and then www.amazon.com comes for free?
> 
> So now www.amazon.com works again:
> 
> # nslookup www.amazon.com
> Server:  ns.nts.umn.edu
> Address:  128.101.101.101
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.amazon.com
> Address:  72.21.210.11
> 
> It seems to me that www.amazon.com was deleted from DNS tables somehow
and
> has now been restored.  I'm not sure how that can happen beause I
don't
> know a lot about how DNS works.
> 
> Mike
> 
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