BBC pings

Has the bbc blocked pings to bbc.co.uk? Been working fine for years. Anyone confirm?

Yea wont ping for me either

Can't blame them really.

Working outside the UK still:

$ ping bbc.co.uk
PING www.bbc.co.uk (46.23.67.190): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 46.23.67.190: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=41.254 ms
64 bytes from 46.23.67.190: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=60.507 ms
64 bytes from 46.23.67.190: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=37.930 ms
64 bytes from 46.23.67.190: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=57.145 ms
64 bytes from 46.23.67.190: icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=40.537 ms

Whether its linked to the apparent DDOS attack that happened recently who knows. maybe they just blocked any unwanted traffic

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 11-Jan-16 21:44:12)

That's not their actual network though.

46.23.67.190 belongs to UK2. Going by the content on 46.23.67.190, it is some kind of proxy to view BBC content out of the country and it's getting redirected there so not actually the BBC network or servers.

BBC's own IP space does not seem to respond currently.

Matt

Edited by uno (Mon 11-Jan-16 22:00:49)

In reply to a post by Banger:

Has the bbc blocked pings to bbc.co.uk? Been working fine for years. Anyone confirm?

The Beeb was getting DDoS'd last night. To try and defend against this they've been using a bunch of content delivery networks, alongside using DDoS protection services which have ended up with pings being blocked.

I've seen Verisign and Akamai being used so far. Little point in them responding to pings if traffic is being diverted elsewhere to be scrubbed, misleading result.

traceroute to www.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.90), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.268 ms 0.344 ms 0.412 ms
2 host-62-24-255-10.as13285.net (62.24.255.10) 5.333 ms 5.469 ms 5.524 ms
3 xe-11-2-0-bragg001.bre.as13285.net (78.151.225.39) 6.707 ms 7.137 ms 7.300 ms
4 host-78-151-225-18.static.as13285.net (78.151.225.18) 7.347 ms host-78-151-229-56.as13285.net (78.151.229.56) 14.041 ms 14.080 ms
5 host-78-144-12-145.as13285.net (78.144.12.145) 14.887 ms host-78-144-12-119.as13285.net (78.144.12.119) 13.446 ms host-78-144-8-63.as13285.net (78.144.8.63) 13.460 ms
6 xe-1-1-0.r2.bb-fo.lon3.vrsn.net (195.66.225.46) 13.698 ms 12.376 ms host-78-144-10-148.as13285.net (78.144.10.148) 13.729 ms
7 xe-4-3-0.r2.bb-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.7.62.60) 17.672 ms 18.887 ms 17.582 ms
8 ae2.668.r2.vidn-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.16.95.157) 18.874 ms xe-4-3-0.r2.bb-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.7.62.60) 21.460 ms 28.046 ms
9 xe-4-3-0.r1.bb-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.7.62.20) 52.747 ms ae3.667.r2.vidn-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.16.95.155) 18.591 ms xe-4-3-0.r1.bb-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.7.62.20) 59.499 ms
10 199.16.80.66 (199.16.80.66) 18.517 ms 217.30.83.10 (217.30.83.10) 19.849 ms ae2.666.r1.vidn-fo.ams1.vrsn.net (199.16.95.153) 22.133 ms
11 199.16.80.66 (199.16.80.66) 21.020 ms 40.909 ms 40.826 ms
12 * * *
13 * * ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (132.185.254.93) 21.255 ms
14 * 132.185.255.165 (132.185.255.165) 21.014 ms ae0.er02.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (132.185.254.90) 20.497 ms
15 bbc-vip011.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.90) <syn,ack> 22.181 ms 132.185.255.165 (132.185.255.165) 22.285 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (132.185.254.93) 22.864 ms

Blame the asshats who took the BBC off the Internet for a second time in 10 days yesterday and forced them to get serious on DDoS protection.

When did you run that tracert? It just gives up for me as soon as it leaves my ISP.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

When did you run that tracert? It just gives up for me as soon as it leaves my ISP.

root@HP-Microserver:~# tcptraceroute www.bbc.co.uk 80
traceroute to www.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.54), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

Ah. Thanks.

Perhaps similar on a Dell, but too tired now to apply brain.