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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>Has anyone else had trouble accessing ebay tonight? I was trying to get on to bid on a lot ending at 11:09 and I never could open the lot's page. I tried on several computers and had the same problem on all of them.
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Posted By: <b>ted</b><p>it's currently under attack... so yes everyone is having problems
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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>Consensus in the chatroom is that eBay is experiencing a "denial of service" meltdown.
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Posted By: <b>Bottom of the Ninth</b><p>It was offline but appears to be back online right now.
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Posted By: <b>Josh</b><p>And this is not good either because it's been down for a while, and this is prime time.<br /><br />As a stockholder, I'm real concerned... if they got hacked, eBay stock is going to plummet... and if anything is stolen during the process... big mess
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Posted By: <b>Mike (18colt)</b><p>No luck here, either, no matter how you access a page. Oh well, I guess it'll save me money tonight. . . . <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>ted</b><p>ping 66.135.202.145<br /><br />request timed out
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>Ted--What does that mean?
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>That's the IP address. When you ping the address it should provide a response time to tell you how long it took for your query to hit the ebay IP address. Think of it as active internet sonar...
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>Either ebay is getting hacked or they are experiencing some other type of problem (routers, server farm, power interruption - who knows). Even if they did get hacked I'm pretty sure that the stock will be somewhat stable unless the markets tank on their own.
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>How do you ping an IP address and when you do what form will the response take and how do you interpit the response? There's a mouthful!
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>Go to your START button (bottom left of screen) then select RUN. Type CMD in the run line to bring up a DOS prompt window. Then type PING 66.135.202.145<br /><br />You'll have to wait a few moments and you will see the response time of how long your ping took to get to the ebay IP address. It'll make 4 attempts and then tell you the average response time.
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>Usually the response time will be in the milliseconds.
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>I've tried that and my computer says that it cannot find the file "cmd"
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>That's interesting. Are you using XP or another Windows product?
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>Windows 98 I think. My system is so old Bill Gates' father designed it.
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Posted By: <b>ted</b><p>if you're using 98SE or something like that type "command" i believe...<br />
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Posted By: <b>Derek</b><p>Well, maybe you can all spend money over at nationalsportscards.com instead? wink-wink-hint-hint.
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Posted By: <b>Tim James</b><p>I can't access any T-206 listings at the moument.How 'bout,wink wink nudge nudge,say nomore,say nomore.
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>Ted-That worked. It responded "request timed out" four times but now it is doing nothing. How long does it take to give you the response time?
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Posted By: <b>steve k</b><p>Still down as of 12:15am EST. I imagine they'll somehow void all affected auctions and relist them in some way - maybe leave it up to the seller to accept the winning bid or not.
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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>It wont provide a response time unless it is able to get a return from the ping.
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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>Guys--thanks for the education. The last time I understood computers is when I designed a cash management system for Exxon's Treasury Dept. in 1974. A giant LP, all on computer punch cards. Now there's a term you will never hear again--key punch operator.
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Posted By: <b>will watson</b><p><a href="http://drudgereport.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://drudgereport.com</a>/<br /><br />this is much more than Ebay...
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Posted By: <b>painthistorian</b><p>Only home page of e bay can be accessed..no links or history can be accessed..been down for 2 hours..not a good thing for anyone!
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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>No need to worry, folks. Cycleback.com is working fine and dandy. More than enough baseball players and fashion models to pass the time.
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Posted By: <b>Tom Boblitt</b><p>stop spending so much money on Old Judge cards and upgrade your computer! Or feed the gerbils more so they run faster in the wheel of your current computer......<br /><br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>cannot get in this a.m.
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Posted By: <b>Jim Clarke</b><p>***A Message from Bill Cobb*** <br /> Date: 05/10/05 Time: 03:07:00 PM PDT <br /> <br /> <br />To Our Community: <br />To put it mildly, yesterday evening was not a pretty time on eBay… <br /><br />Last night eBay’s global marketplace was affected by a power outage at our primary hosting provider’s facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. As if that wasn’t enough, in a completely unrelated incident, the PayPal site went down between 9:13 pm and 9:41 pm Pacific time. On behalf of everyone at eBay and PayPal, I want to apologize for both incidents and give an update on what happened as well as what we’re doing to minimize the impact of these events on our Community. <br /><br />Regarding the eBay outage, our hosting facility’s power was disrupted for about an hour and a half, starting at 7:33 pm Pacific time. This power interruption caused the eBay outage. Immediately following the outage, eBay’s operations team focused on two priorities: working with our partner to restore power as quickly as possible, and activating our failover system. Before our failover system was operational, power returned to the primary system and we immediately began restoring listings and site functions. <br /><br />eBay’s category structure is randomly distributed across 21 databases to manage eBay’s large amount of inventory. Depending on which database hosted your listing, it was impacted in one of two ways: <br /><br /><br />Access to the first group of listings was restored at 9:15 pm – listings scheduled to close between 7:33 pm and 11:15 pm (the outage period plus a two-hour courtesy window) will be credited all fees. <br /><br />The second group was restored at 10:10 pm – the listings in this group that were scheduled to close from 7:33 pm to 12:10 am this morning (the outage period plus a two-hour courtesy window) have been extended for 24 hours, with all fees credited.<br />While the ability to view and bid on the first group of listings was interrupted by the outage, the listings themselves continued as scheduled and unfortunately, we’re unable to extend live listings without causing further disruption to those items. In keeping with eBay’s outage policy, we credited all fees. <br /><br />The second group of listings was simply down during the outage period. We were able to extend these listings by 24 hours and credit fees in accordance with our outage policy. <br /><br />The PayPal incident was caused by a hardware failure in our Denver data center. PayPal’s backup systems took over as they were designed to do, and the site was functioning normally after a brief disruption. <br /><br />We understand that any site interruption impacts you and again, we sincerely apologize. While we believe eBay and PayPal have the best people and technology available, the fact is that sometimes events take place that are beyond our control. Rest assured we are reviewing both situations and working to continually improve our emergency processes. <br /><br />We’re all working to come up with ways to make up for letting you down yesterday. Stay tuned. <br /><br />As always, please feel free to email me at billcobb@ebay.com. <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Bill Cobb<br />President<br />eBay North America<br /><br /> <br />
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