News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:BBC is down by binoyxj on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:05AM (#9202653)
What happened to all the tweets? Did I miss something? https://twitter.com/BBC
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by dantillberg on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:11AM (#9202669)
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/576735915856506880 -- "Apologies, as we are experiencing technical problems on the BBC News website. We are working hard to resolve the issues."
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by beejiu on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:05AM (#9202840)
They have never tweeted from that account (see archive.org)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by sunilkumarc on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:09AM (#9202665)
Even i cannot see any tweets in their page!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by freemanon on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:21AM (#9202699)
Maybe this instead: https://twitter.com/BBCNews
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by johnzim on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:00AM (#9202639)
That's one sensational 500 page too! Anyone who has ever seen the old BBC test card will get a laugh out of it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by philippnagel on Saturday March 14, 2015 @09:50AM (#9202602)
#BringBackClarkson ?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by philpoore on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:14AM (#9202676)
Did wonder this..?

Although its was apparently the Mirror that was pushing the story not Anon... 800k people have signed their petition in 4 days :s

src: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/anonymous-to-ddos-attack-t...

petition: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by philpoore on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:15AM (#9202680)
Whats happened to Anon if its fighting for Steak...?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by fn42 on Saturday March 14, 2015 @09:54AM (#9202616)
Wow, main page 500s and pretty much everything else just fails to load. I wonder what bit the dust, you'd think a full-site failure like this would require a chain of bad things to happen!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by mrcarrot on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:00AM (#9202637)
The Sport section manages to load the menus and footer now, but no content. Earlier it was just a generic 500 error page.

I actually can't remember the last time the BBC went down. I was a little worried something horrible had happened.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by philpoore on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:19AM (#9202692)
Seems more like an attack now...

BBC Twitter has been wiped clean...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202673

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by binoyxj on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:27AM (#9202724)
'The disastrous events that would break the internet' published by BBC on 11 March 2015 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150310-how-to-break-the-in...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by nly on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:40AM (#9202755)
Probably easier to worm your way in to privileged networks and launch a BGP attack that physically attack exchanges like LINX. Isn't BGP essentially trusted?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by philpoore on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:10AM (#9202667)
is it a DNS issue...?

This is what i got...

% dig -t ANY www.bbc.co.uk. @8.8.8.8

www.bbc.co.uk. 236 IN CNAME www.bbc.net.uk.

% dig -t ANY www.bbc.net.uk. @8.8.8.8

www.bbc.net.uk. 158 IN A 212.58.244.70

www.bbc.net.uk. 158 IN A 212.58.244.71

$ host bbc.co.uk

bbc.co.uk has address 212.58.246.103

bbc.co.uk has address 212.58.246.104

bbc.co.uk has address 212.58.244.18

bbc.co.uk has address 212.58.244.20

$ host www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk is an alias for www.bbc.net.uk.

www.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.246.91

www.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.246.90

but then website is being served from 212.58.244.70...?

:s

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by jacquesm on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:25AM (#9202714)
An earlier story on the bbc homepage was 'How to really break the internet'.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by kenrick95 on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:25AM (#9202713)
It's up again!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by sunilkumarc on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:25AM (#9202901)
Any ideas why it was down ?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by bbcrubyfail on Saturday March 14, 2015 @10:00AM (#9202634)
Matter of time before this happened - theyu used to have decent techies - people who could develop, use perl wisely.

Then they went full on ruby mode - and all the halfbaked "developers" in that crowd.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:BBC is down by eertami on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:03AM (#9202834)
BBC News still uses static files for deployment actually.
[ Parent | on HN ]