Anyone else getting DNS errors on BBC sites?

Lew · 26-08-2004, 20:33

I don't seem to be able to access any of the BBC's sites at the moment on my NTL connection.

Code:

Pismo:~ lew$ ping www.bbc.co.uk
ping: unknown host www.bbc.co.uk
Pismo:~ lew$ ping news.bbc.co.uk
ping: unknown host news.bbc.co.uk
Pismo:~ lew$ ping bbc.co.uk
ping: unknown host bbc.co.uk

Anyone else experiencing this?

**Paul** · 26-08-2004, 20:51

The BBC seem to have a bit of a dns problem at the moment.

They list their nameservers as ;

-> ns1.thny.bbc.co.uk.
-> ns1.bbc.co.uk.
-> ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk.
-> ns1.thls.bbc.co.uk.

But none of them appear to be responding to requests atm, so when the bbc dns records exceed their ttl on an ISP's dns servers- they cannot re-request the details and you get an error.

26-08-2004, 20:59

You can still get there via IP but the images all seem broken

212.58.240.144

**Paul** · 26-08-2004, 21:31

Their dns servers are up and running again anyway.

Lew · 27-08-2004, 09:28

Thanks everyone