BBC Website ...

[john_p]

It's not just you! http://www.bbc.co.uk looks down from here

[oobster]

I did wonder if it was just my PC that couldn't connect for some reason.

[davepoth]

Coo. That's a bit broken then.

[BliarOut]

Someone is obviously pissed off with their bias

[davepoth]

Hmm. It's diverting to my DNS doodah now, which usually means it's proper broke.

[sadoksevoli]

No doubt that will be a major headline on the site with supporting stories:
BBC Site Down:
Where were you when in the great BBC outage?
BBC Stars caught up in BBC Website outage
Country in turmoil after BBC Website down
BBC Trust to investigate Website problems

Oh and:
License fee rise to double to pay for new servers and a new bunch of managers to run them

[bob1179]

No BBC sites seem to be working at all.

Very odd.

[MentalSarcasm]

Have they pissed off Anonymous recently?

[davepoth]

bob1179 said:

No BBC sites seem to be working at all.

Very odd.

My crap investigatory powers suggest the BBC runs its own nameservers, and it's those that are borked.

[Kinky]

Won't it be caused by the Government cuts?

[hornetrider]

Most unusual, if not unprecedented.

[eharding]

sadoksevoli said:

No doubt that will be a major headline on the site with supporting stories:
BBC Site Down:
Where were you when in the great BBC outage?
BBC Stars caught up in BBC Website outage
Country in turmoil after BBC Website down
BBC Trust to investigate Website problems

Oh and:
License fee rise to double to pay for new servers and a new bunch of managers to run them

Can't have been down for more than 15 minutes though, as I haven't seen a Lady Gaga "Help the BBC" bracelet yet.

[Stu R]

Funny, they were just asking people to complete a survey regarding the design, content and reliability of their site a few days ago.

Can't complain really, not like it happens often.

[davepoth]

Not just the name servers - the IP for news.bbc.co.uk is 212.58.226.75 and that doesn't work either.

[john_p]

I guess they've screwed up their routing somehow, none of their IPs are working lol

[davepoth]

Question though - you'd think they would use one of their rather abundant media outlets to let people know what was going on, wouldn't you?

[kieranjholland]

same here - still down...

[Kermit power]

iplayer down as well. Seems like the entire corporation's net presence has died, and I've been sitting there cursing Sony because my Bluray player wouldn't access it!

The reason I was trying to get onto iplayer was because my Humax PVR failed to record Silk on BBC 1HD, claiming that "it couldn't track the programme". Might that be the same issue? Would Freeview pull tracking information to start recordings off a web feed?

[davepoth]

Kermit power said:

iplayer down as well. Seems like the entire corporation's net presence has died, and I've been sitting there cursing Sony because my Bluray player wouldn't access it!

The reason I was trying to get onto iplayer was because my Humax PVR failed to record Silk on BBC 1HD, claiming that "it couldn't track the programme". Might that be the same issue? Would Freeview pull tracking information to start recordings off a web feed?

Somewhere way up in the back end it probably does. It might be linked but it's probably unlikely.

[Oily Nails]

BBC Radio 1 website seems to be ok...currently listening to a Friday night set replay from it...
But the BBC News site is down to me. Odd