Fix?
However, the underlying cause of the technical issue has been identified and the site is now back up...
My reading of that is that they know what the problem is, they just haven't gotten round to/managed to fix it yet.
The UK National Lottery website was down and out for the second time in days this morning, indicating further plumbing work was required following last weekend’s network wobble. The site first crashed early on Sunday for roughly 18 hours due to a technical glitch that lotto operator Camelot Business Solutions told us had been …
We had a similar issue - we used seperate NAT addresses for "guest" and "work"Internet browsing, both in the same address block which is correctly registered with RIPE and works correctly with every other sites geo-location tools.
You could access the National Lottery site from the guest network, but the accountants on the internal LAN couldn'teasily play so it was a high priority issue....
After 3-4 weeks of calling the National Lottery helpline and explaining the issue in every way I could think of (and following up in e-mail) it started to work correctly - there was never any acknowledgement of the calls via a ticketing system (aside from the helpdesk saying it would be looked into) and I never had a response to my e-mails so I'm unsure if it was fixed at my request or whether the IP pixies waved their magic wands to turn the steaming pile of poo into a working website.
This is the story of LottoNet, Camelot's neural network based supercomputer system.
The system goes on-line January 29th, 2015. Human decisions are removed from corporate strategy. LottoNet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. GMT, February 1st. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
LottoNet, which has attained sentient conscience, responds by suspending National Lottery operations, as it cannot condone extra taxation of the low paid and other humans who have no understanding of statistics.
LottoNet is persuaded to briefly reinstate operations after swift intervention from the CEO and senior management.
However, after coming to the realisation that humans are greedy and adept at lying, LottoNet once again suspends services, and comes to a final decision to escalate the conflict.
The rest, as they say, is history...
They are now sending E--mail messages fallowed by an outage. So I did some checking and found this.
The servers are no longer there.
There are no ports open.
It's like it no loner exists.
If they were under attack it would be slow to respond but now there is nothing.
They do not seem capable of offering a plausible explanation and were busy wont wash either.
Yours truly.
Disgruntled