On the way to perfect computing

Today I meet a strange one working with ec2 using command line tools.

Each request could not be executes and I received each time Unknown host: ‘https://ec2.amazonaws.com’

Nslookup gave me:

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: ec2.amazonaws.com

Address: 72.21.210.54

And finally, traceroute died with “Request timed out” message.

After some digging I found a workaround

export EC2_URL=https://72.21.210.54

 Now it works perfectly fine