This is the second time I've seen when someone has posted a

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

link here on HN to announce that a major site is down, when it is NOT down for me. Amazon.com is working just fine for me. I've just been browsing around. What is the methodology of

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

that sometimes spoofs that site into reporting a major site is down? I'm having no trouble whatsoever navigating Amazon.com just now.

After edit: I checked my personal website. It's up. But then, oops, I was told that Hacker News is down (even though it evidently isn't).

What do you see when you follow this link?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com

I just saw

"It's not just you! http://news.ycombinator.com looks down from here.

"Check another site?"

P.P.S. I am in the midwestern United States. I was just browsing Amazon.com some more, and it is working great. Hacker News is still reported as down.

This is what I got when I went to Amazon.com: http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png

https://amazon.com gives me an SSL error and then it can't resolve.

What country are you in that you can see it? I'm on the Eastern seaboard of the US.

Your DNS may be poisoned. I guess this is another positive argument for SSL cert pinning in browsers so you are less likely to accept the invalid cert

Back up now. The cert was pointing to www.amazon.com, so it was throwing an error for amazon.com. Then, it would generate an SSL Protocol error. Very odd behavior.

I'm in Chicago and I also get news.ycombinator.com as down, but it's obviously up as I can view it and comment on it.