It's a server (or farm) in the rotation. First 2 tries to get to eBay and PayPal failed from home but the 3rd worked. I managed to complete a payment on items I won, so the whole process from eBay to PayPal worked without any error code after those first 2. Joe Johnson joe@sendjoeanemail.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Morris Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:27 PM To: 'Kevin Day'; 'Hannigan, Martin' Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: paypal down! It appears they're really down. I just tried 'em, and the IP address that comes back really does resolve to Ebay's holdings.... Or someone scammed a whole /19 to make the whole thing up, in which case I have to hand it to 'em! Compromising one host is dandy, but a whole netblock is pretty damned festive! (AS11643 is reporting it, which again appears to be correct) Perhaps it is what it is and they're having karma problems. Scott -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Day Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:58 PM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: paypal down! On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
www.paypal.com
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator,
webmaster@paypal.com and inform
them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Works for me. Same BS splash advertising that always comes up. Damn that is annoying.
Yes, but it *is* up. Same here. Probably one of the rotation web servers had an issue or something minor.
Or there's a chance that you've got a trojan/malware install on the computer. I had someone contact me the other day with a nearly identical complaint, "Why have PayPal and eBay been down all day?" They were alternately getting a 404 or 503 for those sites, but everything else worked. Their hosts file had entries for ebay, google, a number of banks, common phishing targets. Even more fun was when I deleted the hosts file, after his next reboot it pulled an updated hosts file with new working IPs from somewhere. I'm guessing the malware phishers don't have a five-nines array of redundant proxies yet. :)