I can ping heartbeat.belkin.com and the DSL Reports link and other connected links are stating it was back up roughly 30 to 45 minutes ago, so I think we’re out of the woods. Frank From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of John Neiberger via Outages Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:04 AM To: Josh Luthman Cc: outages@outages.org; John Barbieri Subject: Re: [outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com] I think it was initially suspected to be a firmware upgrade, but I doubt that's the case now. It's interesting to me that there are two seemingly unrelated fixes: 1. Put the IP for heartbeat.belkin.com <http://heartbeat.belkin.com> on a loopback 2. Manually add working DNS entries to affected PCs Reports indicate that either fix works, but why? They seem unrelated to one another unless the failing heartbeat messages mess up DNS handling on the router. John On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Josh Luthman via Outages <outages@outages.org <mailto:outages@outages.org> > 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. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel: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 <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 _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org <mailto:Outages@outages.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org <mailto:Outages@outages.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org <mailto:Outages@outages.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages