Seeing similar oddities here now in Aug 2023.

Everything is fixed here in our outgoing requests, except obviously TIMESTAMP and OTP (changes every 30 secs).  All else remains untouched.  Yet, pressing F5/reload bunches of times (and watching audit logs inside NS UI) causes ~50% successful login, 50% failed login.  This erratic flip-flop behavior persists not matter the client, no matter the source network, no matter the time-of-day, etc.

google DNS returns 2 different IP addresses for our XXX.restlets.api.netsuite.com (and also for our XXX.suitetalk.api.netsuite.com) lookups — curiously, the two FQDNs share one IP and each also has its own separate/different IP address.  I thought this might indicate a caching / akamai issue, but DNS spoofing everything locally to the one final/single IP (tried the shared IP and also each pointing to its own unique IP) did not cause the 100% go or else 100% no-go that was expected but instead kept right on returning ~50% go/no-go.  This seems to indicate an unobvious cause invisible to us lowlings  Right now NS feels a lot like dealing with Microsoft, where everything was right per the documentational-majority, but yet the things were still constantly gaslighting, causing a resort to reboot-until-it-works-then-do-not-reboot-it-!!! approach / comic routine to “problem solving”.

Quite maddening.  I realize this is only a small, visible part of what’s possibly going on behind their green curtains — akamai and/or NS may be doing all kinds of internal shenanigans.  For instance, I routinely see in the login audit log (for restlets, rest ws, etc) private (10.x.y.z) IP addresses sprinkled amongst the public IPs, indicating scripts/bundles/apps/etc living on different servers hidden behind a special ‘sometimes-NAT”.

I’m wondering if this may all be part of some kind of accidental or maybe even intentional sabotage…the ‘paying partners’ may get a single fixed-server (the better to bill them space/transfer for) instead of the (apparent/presumed?) hodge-podge loose in our not-a-paying-partner/freelance/”consultants”wild.

I find it incredible that a multi-billion-dollar company has the most dreadful system, and far more dreadful “documentation”.

I’ve been programming for several decades, and this NetSuite monster is among the Very Worst.

Dealing with NetSuite has hurt my image and reputation to clients.