[outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com]

[Paul Miller]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:43:13PM -0400, Nick Olsen via Outages wrote:
>  The current thought (Around the NOC here) is that DNS is breaking due to
>  another user friendly feature. Where the router forwards you to it's config
>  page automatically, if it thinks you have no internet..

I still don't have a clear answer on this at my little ISP here.  I think the
above quote is exactly the problem though.  I had a few people start working
after a router reboot with the ping trick in place and others that couldn't get
going after the reboot.

I suspect the "bad firmware" that may also be (is also?) out there prevents it
from connecting — though DHCP seems to complete ACK before it goes dead and you
never hear from the IP again.

Interestingly, it seems it's not just one IP anymore.

host heartbeat.belkin.com
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.163.87.225
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.163.74.132
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.87.180.46
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 174.129.92.187
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.242.182.61
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 23.20.47.97
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.161.217.33
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.83.179.150
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.163.115.57
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.87.220.73
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.227.172.225
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.196.247.165
heartbeat.belkin.com has address 54.163.72.1

-Paul