That's good enough for me; thanks for the info, Jeremy. Interesting that it sometimes responds if you wait long enough; makes it seem like "not a network problem" in, well, a certain sense.
-R On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <j...@koitsu.org> wrote: > Can confirm from Comcast in Silicon Valley (Mountain View, CA). > > Behaviour appears to be: TCP connection is established, but no payload > response is given when a GET is issued. Simple example: > > $ telnet www.ebay.com 80 > Trying 66.211.181.181... > Connected to www-us.g.ebay.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET / HTTP/1.0 > Host: www.ebay.com > > {just sits here, doing nothing; I literally waited 4 full minutes} > > The reason you get a "ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" is that many browsers have > strict internal timeouts that are reached when it comes to request > payload response. telnet, on the other hand, will happily stay there > for as long as the TCP stack's timeouts permit. :-) I did not see > any sign of a TCP RST or abrupt FIN socket closure. > > I can provide more detailed analysis if asked (curl can give a more > thorough breakdown of time spent in phases), but the root cause for such > behaviour are many -- I'd rather not speculate. > > DNS-wise, this is the result: > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.ebay.com. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > www.ebay.com. 210 IN CNAME www-us.g.ebay.com. > www-us.g.ebay.com. 58 IN A 66.211.181.161 > www-us.g.ebay.com. 58 IN A 66.211.181.181 > > I see the same behaviour from both .161 and .181. > > I will note, however, that occasionally I do get back content/payload > after some time, so I think whatever the issue is intermittent in nature > (maybe something like 85% broken, 15% functional). > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | > | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Rusty Dekema via Outages wrote: >> A number of people on various U.S. ISPs have reported to me that they >> cannot get to the "main page" of eBay; http://www.ebay.com. I (Comcast >> / Ypsilanti MI USA) also cannot access that URL; Chrome gives me the >> message "ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" when I try. >> >> Curiously, both others and I are able to access deep links (e.g. links >> to specific items up for auction) on the site just fine. I have an >> example listing but do not want to include it in this message so as to >> avoid the appearance of spamming. >> >> Are any of you (not) seeing the same? >> >> Cheers, >> Rusty D. >> _______________________________________________ >> Outages mailing list >> Outages@outages.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages