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BBC apologises for 'total outage' of its websites
BRITISH BROADCASTER the BBC has apologised for the "total outage of all BBC websites".
The problem occurred last night between roughly 11pm and midnight, with many of its pages simply failing to load.
The outage caused many, like us at The INQUIRER, to suspect a possible DDoS attack, which is a common tactic used by hackers to overload a website's bandwidth. Another possibility is that there was a huge spike in legitimate traffic that the BBC simply couldn't handle, which doesn't bode well for its IT department.
Steve Herrmann, editor of online BBC News, said that the issue was "a major network problem". He added that the team has not yet had a full technical debrief, suggesting that there may still be things to sort out behind the scenes.
Herrmann said it is rare that the technical support team would report such a large scale outage and apologised to readers of the BBC News website. µ
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I never use BBC websites anyway, didn't notice they were down and don't really care anyway.
A load of BBC channels disappeared also at the same time last night. Fortunately it was not the apocalypse, but digital switch over in my area.
...i.e. chucking out time in British pubs, might I suggest that one of the IT guys got ratted last night, came back to the office and fell asleep on the wrong button?
This wasn't a simple website issue - the whole BBC domain appeared to stop resolving. I was dibbling up my caching DNS server at the time, and thought I'd misconfigured something, since the BBC site was the first one I tried viewing. But www.bbc.co.uk simply did not resolve at all during that time.