Is eBay Down?

[Dnallov]

Been trying to get onto eBay for an hour now, but it come up "Server not found". Even the US site seems to be down. Is it just me?

[darrenwis]

UK and US working fine....

[KidsYard]

You got me excited there. Unfortunately it is still there. Maybe your scam setting on your firewall is set too high ;)

[swisslogistics]

You beat me to asking...so it looks like its been going on a for a while!

I cant log on just tried two different machines, lol would be nice to know whats going on?

[Dnallov]

Must just be me, everywere else seems fine, what could cause this!? I really need to get onto my account!

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[Dnallov]

You beat me to asking...so it looks like its been going on a for a while!

I cant log on just tried two different machines, lol would be nice to know whats going on?

Oh good!, glad to see it's not just me :D

[KidsYard]

First of all I would try using internet explorer and see if its the same. Secondly close your firewall and see if it could be that.

Is it only Ebay that is showing this?.

[Dnallov]

Well I got in: -

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.ebay.com/

Something I learnt from me college days when they blocked every other page:D, but you can't log in to your account.

And STILL can't go straight to www.ebay.co.uk (http://www.ebay.co.uk)

Very Strange

[Dnallov]

First of all I would try using internet explorer and see if its the same. Secondly close your firewall and see if it could be that.

Is it only Ebay that is showing this?.

Yep, tried IE, still the same. Closed my firewall, still the same.

:| :D

[swisslogistics]

Help...im struggling here, I am using Internet Explorer, have not played with the settings at all and cant log on just get the page cannot be displayed error.

Ive tried to access ebay sites, uk, us,...not working, any other website pops up how it should.

How do I go about closing the firewall?

[Dnallov]

If you've got the same trouble as me, It won't help. But you never know: -

- Start
- Control Panal
- Security Centre
- Then Turn Your firewall off

[swisslogistics]

well that didnt work, so what do we do now shipmate? lol and looks like paypal is out the question too?

[JamieM]

It could be your ISP. Who are you both with?

[Dnallov]

Yeah, paypal too! What is happaning! How come it's only us two :|

We should form a club :rolleyes:

Serious though as I need to get on my eBay account, and also (more importantly) my PayPal hope something gets sorted.

[Dnallov]

It could be your ISP. Who are you both with?

Good Qustion

AOL

[swisslogistics]

Im with XLN Telecom, but I think you may be right, ive just logged on using my laptop but with the usb dongle and piggy backed on the wireless in the office and its working.

[Dnallov]

Tell you what, if it is AOL, I'll go mad. I've had no end of trouble with them in the last month :rolleyes:.

How can it affect just ONE website though, and in fact the whole company (eBay USA, eBay Uk, Paypal).

I hope it gets sorted tonight, I'm desperate!

[KidsYard]

Well if you think its your ISP then check youtube to see if it will allow streaming. This is a classic site that isps like to throttle often rendering it useless.

[Fernhurst Solutions Ltd]

Hiya

I can get onto e-bay no problems at all.

:)

[Dnallov]

No, Youtube Videos are very fast, and smooth. But I'm fairly sure that it AOL, I phoned me mate, who's just down the street, he's also on AOL and he's also got the same problem.

[swisslogistics]

I wonder if its a very clever filter?

My suggestion would be to get onto the net using a different location and empty your paypal first, then log onto ebay and take care of your affairs and then I havent a clue il think of something when we get to that stage, I hope its some glitch otherwise this is going to be intresting, lol.

I dont know if changing the MAC address and IP numbers will help and getting rid of cookies and all traces of ebay on the machine?

[Dnallov]

Yeah, it's back! Thank god :rolleyes:

[KidsYard]

Strange, I can get onto ebay as mentioned, yet when i ping ebay I get request timed out.

If you are using XP goto start-> run-> cmd.exe and type ping ebay.co.uk
If you are using Vista either type cmd.exe in the small search bar or goto search-> accessories-> run-> cmd.exe and see what it returns.

[Dnallov]

Same here,

Request timed out
Request timed out
Request timed out
Request timed out

What does that mean? :redface: :D

[ginantonic]

I've just tried at 23.07 and it's ok...I use Firefox, but also tried IE and it's ok there, too.

[sussexrob]

Aol is terrible and worth getting rid of

As far as i know they are trying to get new users by giving away a laptop. Shows they are desperate :)

[DuaneJackson]

There have been some routing problems this evening on an important core switch in the UK. Emergency maintenance was scheduled for 8pm. Could well be related.

A traceroute should prove it or otherwise