DSLR: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29585798-Belkin-Router-Owners-Take-Note. And I am thinking the same thing you are. Doubt resi users upgraded their router overnight. 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. --John On 10/07/2014 10:48 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
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.
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John Barbieri via Outages <outages@outages.org <mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote:
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 <http://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 <http://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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