Amiga.org

Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:03:12 PM

Title: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:03:12 PM
The last couple of days Ebay has been sucking wind, now they appear to be completely down. I cannot even load ebay.com(us). I can load ebay.uk and ebay.au, but if I try to log in or do a US search it dies.

Anyone hear anything? It under attack? :-(
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: amigamad on February 13, 2004, 08:10:15 PM
I just tried it and ebay.com and the search worked ok for me im in the uk. :-)
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:12:15 PM
Change the location of the item to US. You have to go into Advanced search to do this.

Or just click my auctions link.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: MaDDuck on February 13, 2004, 08:12:27 PM
I dunno what you're huffing- but I got in just fine and did a few searches with no problems at all....
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:13:12 PM
Quote

MaDDuck wrote:
I dunno what you're huffing- but I got in just fine and did a few searches with no problems at all....


Read what I wrote, eBay US, not UK.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Argo on February 13, 2004, 08:17:21 PM
works for me. Just checked my account and read my new feedback.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:22:24 PM
Quote

Argo wrote:
works for me. Just checked my account and read my new feedback.


Then it's Bellsouth. I can reach everywhere but eBay. I can't even get a ping response from eBay.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: MaDDuck on February 13, 2004, 08:24:09 PM
I did read what you wrote, by default I use ebay US
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:29:04 PM
Hey Argo, try this for me. Manually type in ebay.com into your browser address bar and hit enter. Then hit reload. Tell me if it works.

I cannot get to it an all and I cannot ping ebay.com, but I just found I can connect if I use the IP obtained with dig. I cannot only get to the main page though, any links after that  timeout.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Ilwrath on February 13, 2004, 08:35:05 PM
Seems to be working fine for US searches from my comcast connection.

eBay uses some strange load-balancing and caching, though.  What works here, may not work elsewhere.

Most likely a more local-to-you caching server got corrupted, or maybe BellSouth's routing tables got hosed.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: amigamad on February 13, 2004, 08:35:12 PM
Quote
Or just click my auctions link.


Ive done that you have 3 items for sale and i have no problems viewing your items.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Argo on February 13, 2004, 08:35:54 PM
No problem. Typed in www.ebay.com and page loaded in 3 seconds. Reloaded a few times and page loaded in up to 7 seconds. Even tried ebay.com, same results.
Sounds like a DNS issue. Can you ping with the IP address?
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Ilwrath on February 13, 2004, 08:38:23 PM
Quote
I cannot get to it an all and I cannot ping ebay.com, but I just found I can connect if I use the IP obtained with dig. I cannot only get to the main page though, any links after that timeout.


Sounds like BellSouth's DNS is hosed.  Maybe try using an open DNS server, in the meantime?
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Effy on February 13, 2004, 08:38:35 PM
I als tried to click on the link of Ebay.com and it also loaded fast (4 secs actually) ... no problem and that from Belgium ...
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 08:40:29 PM
Quote

Argo wrote:
 Can you ping with the IP address?


hmm no, weird. I can load the IP in a browser and get to the homepage, but I can't ping it.

Here is my error in the browser.

Quote
An error occured while loading http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/basicsearch.html?ssPageName=h:h:fitem:US:
Connection to host pages.ebay.com is broken
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Ilwrath on February 13, 2004, 08:46:16 PM
Quote
hmm no, weird. I can load the IP in a browser and get to the homepage, but I can't ping it.


I'm not really sure you can ping eBay on a good day.  Don't they block ICMP?
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Argo on February 13, 2004, 09:24:32 PM
I can't ping eBay either. They may block that kinda stuff. Try pages.ebay.com
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: redrumloa on February 13, 2004, 11:07:25 PM
It's something in my router. I was trying to use a Compaq router, but now I have the Linksys hooked back up temporarily. What setting would be causing the problem I described?
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Acill on February 14, 2004, 01:49:36 AM
Cant think of what would cause a problem in your router unless its set to block an IP range ebay is using.
Title: Re: Ebay down?!?
Post by: Waccoon on February 14, 2004, 01:58:21 AM
Sounds like a TTL problem to me.  I had that happen to my website, and it was more than a week before the URL was working again in the Boston area.

It happens from time to time, but usually only when a webserver changes its IP address.