[outages] ultradns issues? unable to resolve amazon.com

[dl]

It looks like this is a West coast issue - resolving via DNS servers
on the East coast does in fact return DNS for Amazon.

Sounds like theres some murmur on nanog about this too.

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> amazon.com @ns1.nyc.pnap.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20214
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 8

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;amazon.com.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
amazon.com.		60	IN	A	72.21.210.250
amazon.com.		60	IN	A	72.21.207.65
amazon.com.		60	IN	A	207.171.166.252

- DL


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:08, dl <kokushibyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seeing problems trying to reach amazon.com. Looks like the ultradns
> name servers aren't responding? at least from here, and other external
> dns servers I query can't seem to resolve amazon either.
>
> Friend of mine still has some of their DNS in cache, and hardcoding
> dns in my hosts file allows me to hit Amazon without any issue. I was
> surfing fine until my DNS flushed and couldn't re-resolve.
>
> Anyone else seeing anything fun?
>
> Looks like they might be coming back online - my trace is actually
> making it to them now, sort of.
>
>  - DL
>
>  Host                                                   Loss%   Snt
> Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>  1. 192.168.0.1                                          0.0%    40
> 0.5   0.5   0.4   0.6   0.0
>  2. *censored*                   0.0%    40    7.4   8.7   6.6  26.0   3.7
>  3. *censored*                  0.0%    40    5.3   5.8   4.6   9.8   1.0
>  4. ge-6-11-440.car2.Seattle1.Level3.net                 0.0%    39
> 20.0  31.0   5.6 209.0  57.9
>  5. ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net                    0.0%    39
> 7.3  12.0   5.1  35.3   6.1
>  6. ae-1-100.ebr1.Seattle1.Level3.net                    2.6%    39
> 6.4  12.7   5.8  27.6   5.4
>  7. ae-7.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net                        5.1%    39
> 27.3  29.0  22.4  54.4   5.9
>  8. ae-72-72.csw2.SanJose1.Level3.net                    0.0%    39
> 33.1  30.1  23.0  80.4   9.2
>  9. ae-2-79.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net                   12.8%    39
> 24.1  29.9  22.8  92.1  17.0
> 10. 4.68.111.162                                         0.0%    39
> 24.5  47.8  23.5 431.2  80.4
> 11. te3-1-10G.ar1.PAO2.gblx.net                          0.0%    39
> 26.3  30.2  24.9 148.0  20.8
> 12. 64.209.106.2                                        84.2%    39
> 40.5  31.5  27.6  40.5   4.5
> 13. ???
> 14. 204.69.234.1                                        97.4%    39
> 52.2  52.2  52.2  52.2   0.0
>