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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Spurling, Shannon wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
> OK - so it was probably a problem on the DNS server at U Minnesota then. 
> It was odd that I had to delete the "www." out of any amazon.com URL to 
> get it to work.

No, I had the same problem here at MU.

But I think that Shannon's suggested solution is still likely correct. 
(My non-payment of bill suggestion was meant as a joke.)

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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