BBC Website problems causing difficulties to get_iplayer

[Peter S Kirk]

On 20 Jul 2014 at 17:12, Chris Marriott Chris Marriott 
<chris at chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> There's a notice on the site that currently says:
> 
> BBC iPlayer " Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July
> 
> We are currently experiencing technical difficulties affecting certain parts 
> of BBC Online which are resulting in error messages and slow response times 
> for the BBC iPlayer service across a range of platforms and devices.
> 
> This is under urgent investigation and we will update this FAQ once we have 
> more information.
> 
> *** Update 20 July ***
> 
> Intermittent technical issues are still affecting BBC Online. These are 
> under investigation.
> 

I wonder if it is a DDOS attack

Cheers,

Peter

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