On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:01:01PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > 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