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FishyJoe said:
zeross said:
FishyJoe said:
Please stop jumping to conclusions as to what caused amazon to go down. The evidence is pointing to a dns attacker.

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



your "update" with conjecture that it's DNS based is really, really uninformed.

try your "whois" test with microsoft.com or apple.com ... it's the same thing.

your awareness of how the version of the "whois" command operates is the only thing that's been compromised


It is not my conjecture. I'm merely reporting information as I find it.

In regards to dns and pinging, it can often yield varying results as the information is cached on various servers. 


He was reporting too.

That's a comment on the page you link to.