BBC website has disappeared!
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OT BBC website has disappeared!
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Got the same problem george.
Cash
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Yep, dns seems broken!
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Back up now
Cash
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They just put a quid in the meter :-)
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In message , "george [dicegeorge]" writes
Glad it wasn't just me
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In message , Cash
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works for me at 00:20
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Can't see it either.
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lookup from the root name servers or my ISPs name servers for bbc.co.uk,
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or news.bbc.co.uk.
[dave@srv1 ~]# dig news.bbc.co.uk
; DiG 9.2.4 news.bbc.co.uk ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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"The outage set Twitter alight with angry fans questioning how such a breakdown happened."
"Some users, writing online, have speculated that the site had been subject to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack."
Some people really do need to get a life.
MBQ
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This sounds strangely familiar:
Mr Herrmann wrote: "Normally this would not cause any problems as we plan for events like this and run backup equipment. But, in an unusual turn of events, these also failed meaning that the whole of BBC Online became unavailable."
Perhaps it was caused by a tsunami ...?
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did the ground move for you just before?
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So someone blew their routes away.. could be anyone with tier 1 access..
"Me Iranian ISP,. all your bases belong to us"
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NOT a DDOS, but a spoof BGP announcement could do it beautifully.. happened to us once. Some ISP in colorado mistyped a line and started routing half our UK customers to Denver.
starting with you perhaps?
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Nope. I'll lay odds it was an accidental or malicious broadcast of a different route to the beeb from one that ends up AT the beeb.
That's beyond the ability of an individual hacker, but not beyond the ability of a 'trusted ISP' and the beeb is an ISP itself in that context.
Look up how BGP works..
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Indeed - and why suspect a conspiracy when just plain old "life" would account for it just as well.
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In article , Peter Crosland writes
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In article , The Natural Philosopher writes
The Chinese did just that recently, routing 15% of the entire internet's traffic through its own routers. They claimed it was a mistake, was it bollocks. They were scanning the traffic for useful information.