is mtgox blocking usa access?

[joesmoe2012]

This is a mess. If this is for real, there may be serious problems amiss. How can they block access to tens of thousands of customers who's money they are holding?!

I'll confirm this now via a couple servers I have in california.

[TheButterZone]

San Diego, CA. Site loads fine. Logged in fine. No more FUD.

[solex]

Think its just buggy,
i get a white 503 after first Login (+mild Heart Attack, check url + https)
then i reload mtgox.com and i'm logged in and everything is fine.

Same here. Been happening every time I log in for last couple of weeks. Just press the reload symbol on the URL bar and it will be fine.

[joesmoe2012]

Confirmed no issue in california accessing mtgox.

[dlitz]

It seems like a misconfiguration:

• https://www.mtgox.com/  - 503 Service Unavailable
• https://mtgox.com/ - works fine

[Nagle]

It's more or less random from the same IP address in California.  Sometimes it works, sometimes there's a 503 error.

I suspect they have a load balancer, and one of the servers behind it has failed at the web server level, but the load balancer is still sending some traffic to it. Most competently managed sites notice that in under two minutes. Mt. Gox...

[prophetx]

that error means it is hitting an nginx web server that is overloaded and misconfigured