I am on the east coast and am experiencing this 100% of the time today. Perhaps http://code.google.com/status/appengine coule be updated to reflect that this isn't exactly working. api-status.com seems to have more accurate data.
some test responses: $ curl -I http://appengine.google.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:57:08 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: Google Frontend Content-Length: 466 $ ping appengine.google.com PING www3.l.google.com (74.125.45.138): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=33.117 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=33.368 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=32.445 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=38.425 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=32.204 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=30.685 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=36.050 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=32.040 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=36.140 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.45.138: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=30.773 ms --- www3.l.google.com ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 30.685/33.525/38.425/2.412 ms tcpdump -v -i en1 -ttttt host appengine.google.com tcpdump: listening on en1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 00:00:00.000000 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 4441, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 1122) 192.168.2.148.54485 > yx-in-f101.1e100.net.http: Flags [P.], cksum 0xb5da (correct), seq 1191499719:1191500789, ack 1198268946, win 33323, options [nop,nop,TS val 792741414 ecr 4231782916], length 1070 00:00:00.020660 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 56, id 10974, offset 0, flags [none], proto TCP (6), length 52) yx-in-f101.1e100.net.http > 192.168.2.148.54485: Flags [.], cksum 0x40f9 (correct), ack 1070, win 155, options [nop,nop,TS val 4231800521 ecr 792741414], length 0 00:00:00.078026 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 56, id 10975, offset 0, flags [none], proto TCP (6), length 679) yx-in-f101.1e100.net.http > 192.168.2.148.54485: Flags [P.], cksum 0x0264 (correct), seq 1:628, ack 1070, win 155, options [nop,nop,TS val 4231800577 ecr 792741414], length 627 00:00:00.078083 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 34894, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52) 192.168.2.148.54485 > yx-in-f101.1e100.net.http: Flags [.], cksum 0xbdf6 (correct), ack 628, win 33009, options [nop,nop,TS val 792741415 ecr 4231800577], length 0 00:00:03.153283 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 56, id 23210, offset 0, flags [none], proto TCP (6), length 132) yx-in-f113.1e100.net.https > 192.168.2.148.54451: Flags [P.], cksum 0xd31d (correct), seq 439558393:439558473, ack 2771839305, win 654, options [nop,nop,TS val 3861146831 ecr 792741186], length 80 00:00:03.153395 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 20084, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52) 192.168.2.148.54451 > yx-in-f113.1e100.net.https: Flags [.], cksum 0xd2ad (correct), ack 80, win 65535, options [nop,nop,TS val 792741445 ecr 3861146831], length 0 6 packets captured 6 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
