Pierre ZFP Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Is there something wrong with the BBC website this morning?I was listening to Radio 4 at about 0730 when it changed to a message 'Due to rights restrictions, this program is not available in your area'Then it just stopped!I've tried 2 different internet connections and a mobile network but still nothing, can't even connect to any BBC site.Is it just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Something weird going on Pierre. I can't get Radio 4 this morning on the computer. This is my second attempt to reply to you and the first time this page just disappeared and went to the BBC is unavailable page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Well it seems the BBC is downJust got this from my Uber Geek sonhttp://www.isitdownrightnow.com/bbc.co.uk.htmlI can only assume that the BBC support staff are running around like headless chickens!I wonder what change they implemented this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 It's not just the radio. I searched for James Martin's treacle tart recipe which is on the BBC Good Food site and it won't give me that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Well at least they had the good grace to wait until the Test Match had finished [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 The recipe pages are back up but the Beeb news isn't yet.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Anything to do with the weather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Maybe their top technical people are fleeing from the cuts along with their top presenters and news staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Reported in the Guardian but not much detail:http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/31/bbc-suffers-widespread-outages-taking-website-and-iplayer-offlineBy the way, the BBC is not suffering cuts, it is just learning to live reasonably and concentrate on making programmes and not chucking money down the drain on the periphery which includes top heavy management cardes and the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 BBC lunchtime news just said they was hacked - all back up now, apparently, though I've not checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 The Independent says it was a DDoS which makes more sense than hackingNo doubt we will see soon ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Pierre, Yes, so I heard later - but as far as we non-tecchies are concerned it's the same thing .... but much easier to sort, it seems. Back to normal now I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Well, it's got to be very strange for us at the mo. It's a case of now ya see it now ya don't. We have Aunty Beeb set up as our home site and it's on favourites. Sometime we click on it on the favourites and it appears OK and other times it tells us that "the connection was reset" and to try again.I have it up on 2 tabs on Firefox at the moment. One of them came up with the BBC site OK and the other with the connection was reset page, it failed. Try it again on the original tab and it's OK. On the failed tab it failed again. Tried again and it's OK [:-))][8-)]We normally put our MacBook Pro into sleep mode unless it's going to be left for more than a day. We rebooted it today to see if that could be part of the problem, but it made no difference.Is anyone else still having problems??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Yes we are Jonzjob - identical to yours. The first and second time we click on our BBC tab a message says "connection reset", click a third time ands the site comes up as normal.We too use Firefox.Odd indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I'm glad that they aren't just picking on us Hereford [:D]I tried it on Safari as well with the same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Similar problem here, only since the website was DDOS'd, I'm using W10 and either IE11 or Edge and I get a message "Hmm, we can't reach this page" from Edge, or "This page can't be displayed" from IE11, but a refresh then brings it up. Happening with the news and sports pages which are the only two I link to directly.I wondered if they had somehow slugged it in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the last trouble, just checking, friend or foe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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