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The BBC...

ccowleyccowley
edited March 2011 in Chit chat
...seem to have broken their entire DNS. Oops!

Foul play or incompetence? Prace bets now.
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2011
    Whoops!!! I can't reach it either...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2011
    Anyways, why ain't you in #spin, so we can verbally humiliate you?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • ModgeModge
    edited March 2011
    ccowley wrote: »
    ...seem to have broken their entire DNS. Oops!

    Foul play or incompetence? Prace bets now.

    I just logged on here to say the same :lol:
  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2011
    whoops.

    I suspect incompetence.

    I found a broken link on the radio 2 website the other day, it was pointing at dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • ModgeModge
    edited March 2011
    Im giving um 5 minutes then Im firing up Tau Ceti :p
  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited March 2011
    I'm not even getting a DNS error - just a long wait!
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited March 2011
    It's back :) Wonder what happened there then.

    Maybe the cleaner ignored the "IMPORTANT: Do not unplug" message in dymo tape on their router's plug.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2011
    T'is working for me?
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2011
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    T'is working for me?
    See Chris' post above yours...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited March 2011
    Hi,

    Found this article on the BBC news site:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12904586

    They say some folk blame cutbacks but I can't understand that - the TV licence was 100 GB Pound plus when I was last in the UK...

    Perhaps I should submit my CV and ask if they will take me on as a Contractor? ;)
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited March 2011
    spectrumlinux wrote: »
    Hi,

    Found this article on the BBC news site:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12904586

    They say some folk blame cutbacks but I can't understand that - the TV licence was 100 GB Pound plus when I was last in the UK...

    Perhaps I should submit my CV and ask if they will take me on as a Contractor? ;)

    It's not cutbacks (although the BBC has been ordered to cutback on its net output) more likely just a server crash of some kind. The Beeb's websites being down for all of one hour is hardly a big deal anyway. The only thing that makes this a story is the DDoS rumours.
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited March 2011
    Zagreb wrote: »
    It's not cutbacks (although the BBC has been ordered to cutback on its net output) more likely just a server crash of some kind. The Beeb's websites being down for all of one hour is hardly a big deal anyway.
    It wasn't just their websites - it was their entire online presence. Web servers, video streaming servers, DNS Servers, mail servers, VPNs, etc. It's standard practice for secondary/tertiary DNS servers to be located on different networks, in geographically distinct locations to prevent this sort of outage. So the fact that this sort of failure occurred is actually a fairly big deal.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited March 2011
    ccowley wrote: »
    Foul play or incompetence? Prace bets now.

    Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence :-)
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