Cox's embedded ebay and yahoo servers are down

[jimmybgood]

This is the second day now that I can't access my ebay account, because cox won't let me use the real ebay servers.

I'm sure I could use any of the ebay servers, but I can't get their IP number. All dns requests coming out of cox's Arizona and California pipeline are given the IPs of the cox embedded servers, which they don't seem to be able to fix. If someone out there could give me the IP of any other ebay.com name server, I could direct dns requests to that name server and get IPs of servers that do actually work.

I don't know how to do it in Windows, but in Linux I can get it by:

host -t NS ebay.com

which gives me the name servers like:
smf-dns1.ebaydns.com

then:

host smf-dns1.ebaydns.com

gives me the IP of the name server.

That's all I need to try. It might not work as cox's routers might still block my requests, but at least it's an interesting experiment. Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[yinan]

why not use another DNS server like, 4.2.2.2

 

[jimmybgood]

Originally posted by: yinan
why not use another DNS server like, 4.2.2.2

Good idea.

Unfortunately, they give me the same names and ips. I can't believe that all of ebay's name servers are connected directly to the cox backbone in Los Angeles. Maybe, but I don't think so.

Perhaps, the routers are smart enough so that they've got me mousetrapped, no matter what I try. Anyway service is back up. They spent all day yesterday denying the problem, ignored it overnight and I guess they sent somebody over this morning to hit the reset switch.

Thanks for your help!

 

[bsobel]

Cox embedded ebay and yahoo servers? Are you sure they aren't both using Akamai who may have co-located servers with Cox? Curious as I've not heard of eBay and Yahoo doing that directly...