On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:01:01PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:

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Did the IRA bomb the BBC newserver or something? They've been down for two days now.

There has certainly been no interruption in service in the UK; I look at it daily.

However, news.bbc.co.uk is not one machine. The BBC has at least two clusters of servers, one at Telehouse in London and the other in Telehouse America in New York. When I was providing services to the BBC (up until about 18 months ago), these server farms were connected by a private circuit, enabling the NY site to mirror the UK site. Custom DNS software looked at where you were (by IP address) and then gave you an IP address in either London or New York, depending on whether you connected through the London Internet exchange.

What's most likely is that someone along the way has tried to be clever with caching/proxying and in effect has broken your connection.

Must be something like that -- weird tho. I can get to news.bbc.co.uk just fine, but the one I'd been using for a long, long time on a daily basis, www.bbc.uk.com, just disappeared. Oh well. Makes me wonder tho, about who/what the sites actually are that we go to -- maybe nothing is as it seems. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com