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PayPal.com offline?

  • 18-06-2008 10:19pm
    #1
    MrAbc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭


    I can't login to PayPal.com at the mo (Wedn 2006-06-18 22:45)...
    ...is it just me? ("Connection reset", Ctrl+refresh doesn't help)

    BTW there was some sort of (limited) ebay outage that affected me last week... might be related? [some UK Linux-heads mentioned that that affected them too]

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    Yup it's just you

    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/paypal.com

    Always find it funny when someone assumes one of the largest websites in the world is down, and it's not their connection/dns/computer...


  • #3
    MrAbc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭MrAbc


    Fair enough.

    Just confusing to see the paypal login page load so slowly and login fail while other usual int'l websites work away with normal gusto.

    => a DNS issue, then, with BTbroadband?
    Simple to check/cure/belt with hammer/etc?


  • #4
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    Well if you are getting the login page, but slowly - probably not a DNS issues.

    open the command prompt (start > run > cmd) and type in

    ping paypal.com

    and

    tracert paypal.com

    That should give you an indication of problems, ping should display the amount of time it takes to make a roundtrip to the server in milliseconds (lower = better)

    Tracert (traceroute) will display the route taken to the server, and show any possible slow routes.

    Anyway, I always found BT's DNS servers to be flaky at best, and switched to OpenDNS soon after.


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