glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 (edited) typical i just got into bed flicked the laptop on loaded a program on iplayer now the website has crashed completely! the whole thing all of the other sites like sport/news aswell! never seen the whole thing crash normally just only parts! unlucky for the people on the night shift that have just gone into overdrive! http://www.bbc.co.uk Is Down -> Check if your website is up or down? EDIT: not even fern cotton with the promise of a swimsuit crashed the whole site! Edited March 29, 2011 by glennda
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 Yeah i googled it and there's lots of people posting it on twitter saying how they have restarted there pc's and it still doesn't work! bbc down - Google Search
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 somebody posted this saying look the website crashed check out there server who wants to tell them its just a switch? lol
FN-GM Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 The BBC name server dont seem to be replying to pings. Also Who.is cant find the DNS records...
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 somebody put on there twitter that there network isn't routing traffic - how reliable that is is questionable though nslookups fail aswell.
MatthewL Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 Down for me too. So much for watching iPlayer tonight!
GrumbleDook Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 I'm scheduled to record a radio show as today is the last day to get it .... part 3 of the David Bowie Story on 6Music.
featured_spectre Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 wonder if it is as simple as hosting not being renewed due to budget cutbacks? lol..I am going to try to buy BBC.co.uk
featured_spectre Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 scratch that, got renewed Dec 2010....expires 13 Dec 2012 (note on my laptop to auto purchase domain if possible)...will be fun
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 It must be something major internally with there network as i would assume they must have multiple external connections to reduce the impact of buildings digging through cables etc
FN-GM Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 It must be something major internally with there network as i would assume they must have multiple external connections to reduce the impact of buildings digging through cables etc With a £200 million a year budget you would think so
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 more images from twitter BBC website down time explained. on Twitpic
glennda Posted March 29, 2011 Author Posted March 29, 2011 could this be a DDoS by Gaddafi?! this says it could have been anonymous http://www.wirefresh.com/bbc-website-is-down-1055pm-29th-march/
Martin Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 it's back up now! It might be back but seven hours later there is not a single mention of the outage (that i can find) in the news.bbc.co.uk website? More selective reporting from the "totally impartial BBC service"! mb
localzuk Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 Sounds like a network issue if it took down all BBC sites. Guessing they're all hosted in a single data centre.
Dos_Box Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) I like this bit: It led to speculation that the site had been attacked, while others blamed cutbacks. I know the BBC is anti-cuts but in what way does this affect it?!!! Edited March 30, 2011 by Dos_Box
webman Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 As many of you will have noticed (and reported on Twitter) the whole of BBC Online was down last night for an hour from 22:40 due to a major network incident. We would like to apologise to everyone that was unable to access BBC Online during this outage. Our systems are designed to be sufficiently resilient (multiple systems, and multiple data centres) to make an outage like this extremely unlikely. However, I'm afraid that last night we suffered multiple failures, with the result that the whole site went down. Enough of the systems were restored to bring BBC Online pretty well back to normal by 23:45, and we were fully resilient again by 04:00 this morning. For the more technically minded, this was a failure in the systems that perform two functions. The first is the aggregation of network traffic from the BBC's hosting centres to the internet. The second is the announcement of 'routes' onto the internet that allows BBC Online to be 'found.' With both of these having failed, we really were down! We'll be taking a very hard look at what we need to do to make sure that this doesn't happen again. BBC - BBC Internet Blog: BBC Online Outage on Tuesday 23rd March 2011
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