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Re: BBC is down

#3
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!

Re: BBC is down

#4
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.

Re: BBC is down

#5
post #3

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.

Re: BBC is down

#10
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

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