[174978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Tue Oct 7 12:05:44 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E9C67DA261AC349B60FF3609F5E211D6A0CD5BA@USI-2K10EX01-MT.usicorp.usinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:05:33 -0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 7, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Justin Krejci <jkrejci@usinternet.com> =
wrote:
> https://twitter.com/search?q=3D%23belkin
>=20
> Sounds like a bad firmware update most likely.
> Presumably the Belkin routers perform caching DNS for the LAN clients =
for if the LAN clients use alternate DNS servers (OpenDNS, Google, your =
ISPs, etc) there are no longer any issues for those devices, as reported =
by several random people on the Internet.
Over on outages, someone mentioned that heartbeat.belkin.com was =
unreachable from some areas, and that was causing their routers to shut =
down.
Cheers,
Steve