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BBC is down

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What happened to all the tweets? Did I miss something? https://twitter.com/BBC

Even i cannot see any tweets in their page!

Maybe this instead: https://twitter.com/BBCNews

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."

They have never tweeted from that account (see archive.org)

That's one sensational 500 page too! Anyone who has ever seen the old BBC test card will get a laugh out of it.

#BringBackClarkson ?

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

Whats happened to Anon if its fighting for Steak...?

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!

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.

Seems more like an attack now...

BBC Twitter has been wiped clean...

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

'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...

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?

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...?

An earlier story on the bbc homepage was 'How to really break the internet'.

It's up again!

Any ideas why it was down ?

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.

BBC News still uses static files for deployment actually.

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