Ask HN: is ec2 mishandling your requests right now?

2 points by mattlanger 16y ago ↗ HN

Pretty much one out of every two requests to our site at hotpotato.com is being redirected to another site called yourtango.com. This behavior started about fifteen minutes ago so far as we can tell, and from poking around I see that both of us fall within the same Amazon IP block (174.129.*).

Is anyone else experiencing behavior like this? The AWS status blog shows no issues, but I'm waiting to hear back from support.

This is really stressful.

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mechanical_fish 16y ago ↗

Have you checked your DNS several dozen times? One out of every two sounds like what happens when someone accidentally sets an A record with a slightly different IP. Do not ask me how I know this. ;)

mattlanger 16y ago ↗

Ha, DNS is legit. If we make requests by IP we get the same behavior.

mattlanger 16y ago ↗

.... aaaaaand it just stopped happening.

tshtf 16y ago ↗

FWIW, I have an EC2 instance in the 174.129/16 block and I didn't see any unusual traffic into that instance over the past 30 minutes.