[174988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Tue Oct 7 18:32:33 2014
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:32:24 -0700
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: John Neiberger <jneiberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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And this, my friends, is why friends don't let friends buy Belkin...
Apparently, you still can't fix stupid, no matter how hard you try.
-Mike
On Tuesday, October 7, 2014, John Neiberger <jneiberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like it might have been a DNS issue of some sort. The end result was
> that the customer routers couldn't reach their heartbeat server, which made
> them think they weren't on the net. The routers would then be "helpful" and
> redirect all customer port 80 traffic to the router's configuration page to
> correct the "problem".
>
> It was a big mess that hopefully doesn't happen again. They've been making
> changes to their DNS this afternoon. Looks like they finally have it
> straightened out.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Oct 7, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Justin Krejci <jkrejci@usinternet.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > https://twitter.com/search?q=%23belkin
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> >
>
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