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It's a dns attack most likely, nothing to do with MGS4.

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/06/briefly-amazon-com-offline

UPDATE: It looks like it could be a DNS issue. It looks like Amazon's DNS entry got hacked. Here's what results from a Whois search for Amazon.com:

Smokey:~ jlgolson$ whois amazon.com

Whois Server Version 2.0


Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered

with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net

for detailed information.


AMAZON.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM

AMAZON.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM

AMAZON.COM

 

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the

of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up

with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.