[outages] www.amazon.com down?

Thu Jan 31 15:16:17 EST 2013

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:56:52PM -0700,
 Tim Densmore <tdensmore at tarpit.cybermesa.com> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> Anyone have any info?

DNS is OK, network is OK. The machine replies quite fast. But, then
the application has a problem:

%  curl -v http://www.amazon.com/
* About to connect() to www.amazon.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 205.251.242.54... connected
* Connected to www.amazon.com (205.251.242.54) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6
> Host: www.amazon.com
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
< Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:14:50 GMT
< Set-Cookie: skin=noskin; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Thu, 31-Jan-2013 20:14:50 GMT
< Content-Length: 62
< Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store
< Pragma: no-cache
< Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
< Cneonction: close
< Content-Type: text/html
< 
* Connection #0 to host www.amazon.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
<html><body><b>Http/1.1 Service Unavailable</b></body> </html>