If they just realized a server was down, from 2/14, just now, I’d say they have 
bigger support issues


From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Jared Geiger
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 2:23 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear 
to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

What likely happened is that messages were queued on host to go out, SMPP binds 
go down, queue fills up, host crashes. Then someone realizes the host is down 
and brings it back up and the queue empties when the load is low. Since it 
included many carriers, might have been a message routing server in the middle 
of their platform.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:52 AM David Hubbard 
<dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com<mailto:dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com>> wrote:
Playing devil’s advocate, perhaps they were under emergency court order to not 
deliver texts for a certain duration, market, who knows what, and that order 
just ended, but some type of non-disclosure / secrecy directive continues to 
exist… may have just had to come up with something to say because their other 
agreements would not have permitted discarding the texts… 😊

David

From: NANOG 
<nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus....@nanog.org<mailto:dino.hostasaurus....@nanog.org>>
 on behalf of Mark Stevens <mana...@monmouth.com<mailto:mana...@monmouth.com>>
Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM
To: "nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>" 
<nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>>
Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear 
to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

Reading Syniverse's cause of trouble (lame excuse) tells me their data handling 
processes are poor and seemingly shady since I do not buy reason for the 
trouble.

On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:
Esp on Valentine’s day.  Of all the days that clear communication is important. 
 I’d be very interested in their reasoning for why these messages were not sent 
and held.

From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org><mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf 
Of Oliver O'Boyle
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
To: Matt Hoppes 
<mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net><mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group 
<nanog@nanog.org><mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear 
to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were paid 
to do...

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes 
<mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net<mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> 
wrote:
“During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously 
undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operators’ 
subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement.


how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked 
and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?

On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec 
<bs...@teamonesolutions.com<mailto:bs...@teamonesolutions.com>> wrote:
From: 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/

It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..

"Some mobile carriers rely on a third-party text platform called Syniverse to 
relay messages. The vendor said in a statement that its IT staff unknowingly 
caused the texts to be delivered this week."
-Brandon





On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell 
<br...@interlinx.bc.ca<mailto:br...@interlinx.bc.ca>> wrote:
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +0000, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote:
> Does anyone have any more information on this?

Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already
are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text
messages?  And why?

Cheers,
b.


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