Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-11 Thread Mark Delany
> What I've seen happen more often than that: > > Server goes partly belly-up, queue fills up. Backup process runs, backing up > the > queue. (Optionally here: Reboot the server and lose the queue). Much later, > the > server hits another issue that requires recovering from backups - and they

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
It doesn't seem to be simply a matter of backlogged messages finally going out. My friend replied to the mystery messages received from me and I thought she was accidentally responding on the wrong thread. Her texts seemed spontaneous and disjointed which is why I assumed she was on the wrong

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Matt Hoppes 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

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:43:41PM -0500, Mark Stevens wrote: > 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. Agreed. So how many other messages have been delayed, lost,

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-09 Thread bzs
This can be a "curse" of highly available servers which stay up for a year or more, some of mine will. A mail delivery process locks messages in the queue for delivery and then the process hangs. Subsequent delivery attempts will honor the lock so they never go out, nor are they even timed

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Jim Shankland
On 11/8/19 10:34 AM, 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. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Hope we're still together When this reaches

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 8, 2019, at 20:38, Chris Kimball wrote: > > Oct 24, 2019 I’ve seen the date. But have you seen the content? > The Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative will help drive the next generation of > messaging for consumers and businesses. Hello? > Looks to be within the last month! Of 2006?

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:23:17 -0800, Jared Geiger said: > 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. What I've

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Jared Mauch wrote: I run mailing lists. I’ve had times where I find something stuck in the system and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure it goes out based on the original intent. This has resulted in me sending out e-mails a year or two later at

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Ben Cannon
@nanog.org> On >> Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle >> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM >> To: Matt Hoppes >> <mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> >> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group >> <mailto:nanog@nanog.org> >> Subjec

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Trevor Manternach
I believe Syniverse only comes into play when you text someone on a different carrier than your own. Syniverse is basically the middle-man for that message delivery, and a server of theirs just spooled ~150k messages until someone rebooted/fixed that server. It sounds like these messages were

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Clayton Zekelman
… David From: NANOG on behalf of Mark Stevens Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 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 Reading Syniverse's cause of trouble (la

RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Chris Kimball via NANOG
Bormann Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:29 PM To: Chris Kimball Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 [EXTERNAL] OK, I understand the part about text messages from February 2019 being

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
OK, I understand the part about text messages from February 2019 being sent on now, but… > On Nov 7, 2019, at 23:42, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote: > >

RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Kain, Becki (.)
og.org>> on behalf of Mark Stevens mailto:mana...@monmouth.com>> Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM To: "nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>" mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to ha

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Jared Geiger
iday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 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 > > > > Reading Syniverse's cause of trouble (lame excuse) tells me their d

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Jared Mauch wrote on 11/8/2019 12:33 PM: On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Matt Hoppes 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

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread David Hubbard
gt; Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <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,

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Mark Stevens
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 <mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote: “During an internal ma

RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Kain, Becki (.)
Operators' Group 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 mailto:mattli

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Matt Hoppes > 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

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
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> wrote: > “During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously > undelivered text messages were inadvertently

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Matt Hoppes
“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

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Brandon Svec
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

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +, 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. signature.asc

all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-07 Thread Chris Kimball via NANOG
Does anyone have any more information on this? Users on Twitter report that T-Mobile said "that there is a known issue of texts being resent/spoofed and said not to worry about it." https://twitter.com/ThelocalfilmMN/status/1192434609197375488