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

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

Yeah, but that did happen before... 
If the distributed caching server company has a glitch, it could be that
they can't serve the name. When the original post hit the list, were you
both still having trouble? I looked it up, and it worked fine for me.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:discussion-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 4:34 PM
> To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] where is www.amazon.com?
> 
> 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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