BBC is down... internal error or ddos?

http://www.bbc.co.uk

by ljf • 15 years ago

23 19 15 years ago

bbc.co.uk

ljf4• 15 years ago

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bbc.co.uk

guan2• 15 years ago

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.bbc.co.uk

estel2• 15 years ago

It went down at around 2239 GMT. I've not seen a hint on Twitter to suggest that it was a DDOS, though I guess that doesn't rule it out.

@timweber: "So yes, it doesn't look too good. both internal and external DNS are down, by the sounds of it." Edit: @richard_webber: "Not just DNS down for the BBC, they've been taken off the Internet completely, no routing to AS2818."

ljf4• 15 years ago

Yes, wondered about ddos first when posting this, but now seems more unlikely. They did a fairly big platform overhaul last week, but most of the site doesn't run on it yet, plus the news.bbc.co.uk servers don't and they are usually their most robust. Nothing on BBC news channel yet mentioning it, which you'd think there would be if was foul play.

ljf4• 15 years ago

bbc.com and bbcworldwide.com down too, so very likely routing issues. Hope the out of hours ops team are availble!

estel2• 15 years ago

Allegedly BGP routing issue:

23:26:01 <+GeeDee> cr0.ixnlon#sh ip bgp 132.185.132.21

23:26:01 <+GeeDee> % Network not in table

kierank• 15 years ago

132.185.0.0/16 is back up but 212.58.0.0/16 isn't.

EDIT: 132.185.0.0/16 has gone again. (actually it's a bit less than a /16 but I don't feel like looking it up)

rdl• 15 years ago

Thankfully, nuclear missiles are only launched if radio stations are down, not websites.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090400/HMS-Apocalyp...

"How on earth does [the submarine commander] know if the PM has been killed and the normal chain of command obliterated? For obvious reasons, no one we spoke to would elaborate on the precise protocols. Suffice it to say that there is a complicated series of checks that the submarine commander must perform to establish the true situation—one of which, curiously, is to determine whether Radio 4 is still broadcasting."

JonnieCache• 15 years ago

There would be little point in carrying on without radio 4 anyway to be honest.

SandB0x• 15 years ago

I believe you are talking about The Event (please, remain indoors)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_rCnueID8

guan2• 15 years ago

I can’t resolve www.bbc.co.uk using any of the four name servers (ns1.thls.bbc.co.uk, ns1.bbc.co.uk, ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk and ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk). The last IP address Netcraft saw was 212.58.246.90, which I also can’t access, but they definitely have DNS problems.

beck5• 15 years ago

Everyone goes down eventually, if can go wrong....

tristanperry• 15 years ago

http://bbcworldnews-japan.com/ works (I assume that's colocated in Japan though)

Been down for a while now; no official Tweets from any of the official BBC Twitter accounts it seems.

Edit: It's backup now. Was done for about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

aditya• 15 years ago

Back now.

re1s• 15 years ago

They're up again.

hartror• 15 years ago

Back for me.

ljf4• 15 years ago

And it's back, I guess we'll find out more tomorrow on the BBC blogs.

corin_• 15 years ago

Budget cuts ;)

djmattyg007• 15 years ago

the simple idea that anything from the BBC could be "down" and not operating is, quite plainly, freaking scary.

BBC is down... internal error or ddos?

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