BBC website crashes for an hour
Technical problems with the BBC website saw a total outage of the news site, iPlayer and other web services yesterday.
The disruption lasted for around an hour on Tuesday evening.
BBC bosses admitted that there had been a "major network problem" caused by multiple systems and their backups failing.
The outage set Twitter alight with angry fans questioning how such a breakdown happened.
It led to speculation that the site had been subject to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
However the BBC said that, at this stage, there was no indication that the failure had been caused maliciously.
In an online posting, Richard Cooper, the BBC's controller of digital distribution wrote: "For the more technically minded, this was a failure in the systems that perform two functions.
"The first is the aggregation of network traffic from the BBC's hosting centres to the internet. The second is the announcement of 'routes' onto the internet that allows BBC Online to be 'found.'
"With both of these having failed, we really were down!"
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