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DSLR:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29585798-Belkin-Router-Owners-Take-Note">http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29585798-Belkin-Router-Owners-Take-Note</a>.<br>
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And I am thinking the same thing you are. Doubt resi users upgraded
their router overnight.<br>
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Like you said, chances are it has to do with that heartbeat. Asked a
few folks around the US to ping it, some successful, some not, and
they weren't behind anything Belkin related.<br>
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--John<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/07/2014 10:48 AM, Josh Luthman
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<div dir="ltr">Where? I keep reading "bad firmware" problems but
everything suggests there is no automatic upgrade and I think we
can safely assume resi users didn't upgrade their routers over
night.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John
Barbieri via Outages <span dir="ltr"><<a
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Funny,<br>
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Just saw something about Belkin routers and a botched
firmware upgrade.<br>
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I wonder if this is what they meant.<br>
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That being said, it is working fine from Zito Media in
Clanton, AL.<br>
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--John
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On 10/07/2014 10:17 AM, Paul Miller via Outages wrote:<br>
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On one of my netblocks my subscribers can nolonger
ping Belkin. I can ping<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://heartbeat.belkin.com" target="_blank">heartbeat.belkin.com</a>
from my webservers and from subscriber units on a<br>
different netblock.<br>
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Apparently Belkin routers ping the home base every
couple seconds to determine<br>
the correct color of the Internet light on the router
(orange or blue *sigh*).<br>
Worse, when it can't ping the Belkin site the router
seems to pack up and<br>
redirect my subscribers to their router configuration
page.<br>
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I found this pretty easy to work around. I simply
DNATed the pings intended<br>
for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://heartbeat.belkin.com" target="_blank">heartbeat.belkin.com</a>
to one of my local nameservers and that seems to get<br>
them back online. It's a silly workaround, but if
anyone else is seeing all<br>
the Belkin routers on their network pack up, this
could be why.<br>
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-Paul<br>
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