BBC news site

Can anyone else access it? I’d never thought the BBC would go down.

nope – down for me

Down for everyone (not just me/you).

I blame teh leet haxors from evilzone.

Down for me as well.

The BBC’s cuts must have started early.

Run! Run away! Panic!

WE’RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMEEEEDDDD!

😯

Cyber attack by Libya.

Down. And what’s worse we were half way through the last episode of SIlk on iPlayer which has also crashed.

Just putting on my tinfoil nightcap.

Seems like it’s all of the BBC websites then. The end is nigh.

London = Ground Zero?

Anyone seen any bright lights? Any londoners care to pitch in and confirm they’re not nuclear zombies?

Lots of bright lights, but none more than usual really. I’m not a nuclear zombie, as it’s against my religion.

Is it not the one of the biggest websites in’t World? I mean, really really really really big.

Probbly someone’s forgot to put 50p in meter for t’server then.

government cuts to hamster budgets if you ask me 🙄

downforeveryoneorjustme confirms it is down… iplayer also dead

4od still there

There are 39 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Bbc.co.uk. Compared with internet averages, the site’s users are disproportionately Caucasian, and they are disproportionately childless men earning between $30,000 and $100,000 who have postgraduate educations. About 12% of visits to it are referred by search engines. Visitors to Bbc.co.uk spend about seven minutes per visit to the site and 63 seconds per pageview. About 34% of visitors to the site come from the UK, where it has attained a traffic rank of 5.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bbc.co.uk

Compared with internet averages, the site’s users are disproportionately Caucasian, and they are disproportionately childless men earning between $30,000 and $100,000 who have postgraduate educations

it bothers me more that they have the data to state that as fact

who’s watching who?

new eu directive on cookies might be interesting

Keep Calm & Carry On…

nuclear zombie

I thought that was geordie niche lager, not cockernee living dead

Still down. Most peculiar.

sod that

That’ll explain why my nice graph on another thread suddenly disappeared then 😐

Now, I’ve just clicked on jamies link to a YouTube thingy and it’s not working either…

Is YouTube down aswell.

Has somebody deleted the Internet?

Is stw the last thing left???

🙁

back up now

Working for me

Phew

back.

leftie propaganda can continue 😉

Heh, I always use the BBC website as an internet test because it’s never down. Very confusing

The BBC website down; meh.

The vast number of geeks I know, not knowing why (ie, cause rather than symptoms); terrifying.

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Now, I’ve just clicked on jamies link to a YouTube thingy and it’s not working either…

Is YouTube down aswell.

Has somebody deleted the Internet?

Is stw the last thing left???

Oh the irony, that made me giggle 😉

working this morning.

The civilsed world is safe:

The BBC’s controller of digital distribution, Richard Cooper, explained that the problem lay with the way users are directed to BBC websites : “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’,” he wrote.

Some users, writing online, have speculated that the site had been subject to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

Typically, hackers will crash a website’s servers by swamping it with requests, usually from computers that have been hijacked using malicious software.

The BBC said that, at this stage, there was no indication that the failure had been caused by such an attack.

Paul Mutton, a security researcher at Netcraft, said that traffic patterns around the BBC site immediately before and after the outage suggested that it was down to a technical failure.

“Usually there will be an increase in request times [to a website] before a DDoS. Traffic patters to the BBC site were not typical of an attack,” said Mr Mutton.

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

[sarcasm on] Oh no. What a disaster. We all lost an hours access to news that’s easily available from umpteen other sources. [/sarcasm off]

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I like the 404 page with the missing girl.

“For the more technically minded, here’s a nonsensical non-technical explanation.”

ocrider – is that a genuine page? Wouldn’t surprise me as the BBC technical people seem to have a sense of humour (see volume 11 on iplayer) 🙂

Absolutely real 404 page

That 404 was rendered useless if the routing fell over.

And yes, that 404 is a real page – glad someone at the Beeb has a sense of humour 🙂

If anyone is interested:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/30/bbc_website_outage_explained/