Belkin Router issues this morning?

Wed Oct 8 14:18:27 UTC 2014

On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net>
>wrote:
>> I am having trouble understanding why a router would need a heartbeat
>>from
>> some foreign location.  Or even what it would do with one.
>
>One, not crazy, line of thinking is that: "Instead of being cryptic
>and difficult to understand, help the customer to know that: "your dsl
>is boarked" and that offloading that call set from the ISP for
>something that might be simple to fix at the CPE might make the ISP
>folk happy.

That would be not-crazy if there were congruence with "DSL borked" and
"host unreachable."

>
>Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a
>reliable and always-on service...oops.

Clever!

Lee