[outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com]

[John Barbieri]

Funny,

Just saw something about Belkin routers and a botched firmware upgrade.

I wonder if this is what they meant.

That being said, it is working fine from Zito Media in Clanton, AL.

--John
On 10/07/2014 10:17 AM, Paul Miller via Outages wrote:
> On one of my netblocks my subscribers can nolonger ping Belkin.  I can ping
> heartbeat.belkin.com from my webservers and from subscriber units on a
> different netblock.
>
> Apparently Belkin routers ping the home base every couple seconds to determine
> the correct color of the Internet light on the router (orange or blue *sigh*).
> Worse, when it can't ping the Belkin site the router seems to pack up and
> redirect my subscribers to their router configuration page.
>
> I found this pretty easy to work around.  I simply DNATed the pings intended
> for heartbeat.belkin.com to one of my local nameservers and that seems to get
> them back online.  It's a silly workaround, but if anyone else is seeing all
> the Belkin routers on their network pack up, this could be why.
>
> -Paul
>
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