[TriLUG] OT: Able to reach amazon.com?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 19:45, Bill Vinson wrote:
> I have been only able to get sporadic access to amazon.com the past few 
> days.  Right now I can't get to it at all.  Is anyone else having this 
> problem?  Upon a traceroute, it appears as if I get into amazon's 
> network (177-168.amazon.com is the last host it contacts and gets a 
> response), but then traceroute stops getting responses.  I ask as I was 
> looking at a book for the TriLUG reading circle and in the 3 or so years 
> I have been buying from them, this is a first.

Unfortunately traceroute has become not quite as useful a tool
as it used to be when people started filtering ICMP packets.
If Amazon's machines don't respond to pings, traceroute won't
work. Their web servers, however, can still be up and available. 

Tanner
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