BBC is down... internal error or ddos?

Re:BBC is down... internal error or ddos? by estel on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:25PM (#2384783)

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."

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Re:BBC is down... internal error or ddos? by estel on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:35PM (#2384815)

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

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Re:BBC is down... internal error or ddos? by kierank on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:43PM (#2384848)

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)

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Re:BBC is down... internal error or ddos? by ljf on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:32PM (#2384803)

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.

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Re:BBC is down... internal error or ddos? by ljf on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @06:42PM (#2384845)

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

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