[outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com]

[Roland Dobbins]

On Oct 8, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:

> Why do that if Belkin is up and running again? 

So that it doesn't recur if things get dorked up, again?  It's a great DDoS vector - take down that IP, wedge every affected Belkin CPE on the Internet.

This kind of thing is extremely brittle, and apt to go into Sorcerer's Apprentice Mode without warning.

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