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. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John Barbieri via Outages < 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 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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