Email to text - vtext.com blacklisting ip

Tue Aug 16 23:39:26 UTC 2016

Personally PagerDuty and their API.  Serious stuff is a phone call
(something I rarely get after hours).

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

On Aug 16, 2016 7:34 PM, "Sam Norris" <Sam at sandiegobroadband.com> wrote:

> Same boat...  We are sending messages to PHONENUMBER at vtext.com and getting
> bouncebacks or lost items.  I assume its because some limits are now being
> put
> into place.  We are a Verizon subscriber so I am paying, it is not a free
> service.  But .... I am totally up for paid services if you can recommend
> some
> that will reliably get us texts to our verizon phones.
>
> Sam
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ryan, Spencer
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 4:17 PM
> > To: Josh Luthman; Mike
> > Cc: NANOG list
> > Subject: RE: Email to text - vtext.com blacklisting ip
> >
> > I agree. Pay Pager duty or a SMS gateway with a SLA. Relying on  the free
> service
> > for anything critical is asking for trouble.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> > Date: 8/16/16 6:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
> > To: Mike <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com>
> > Cc: NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
> > Subject: Re: Email to text - vtext.com blacklisting ip
> >
> > If it's critical I'd suggest a service than can depended on...
> >
> > Josh Luthman
> > Office: 937-552-2340
> > Direct: 937-552-2343
> > 1100 Wayne St
> > Suite 1337
> > Troy, OH 45373
> >
> > On Aug 16, 2016 5:45 PM, "Mike" <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >     I have a server that monitors my network and issues text messages
> if
> > > there are events of note that require human intervention. There is some
> > > process filtering that ensures it also is not able to issue more than 1
> > > alert maximum per 5 minutes, to ensure it doesn't flood pagers with
> > > messages all screaming the sky is falling when things are not going
> well.
> > > Recently however, this server is no longer able to deliver messages to
> > > vtext.com - it gets nothing but 554 errors:
> > >
> > >
> > > telnet 69.78.67.53 25
> > > Trying 69.78.67.53...
> > > Connected to 69.78.67.53.
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > > 554 txslspamp10.vtext.com
> > > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > >
> > > Granted on some days during challenging times it can send 30 or 40
> > > messages before we get to it and get it squelched / silenced, but it's
> > > otherwise reasonably well behaved IMHO and I don't think we are any
> heavy
> > > volume sender. So I am trying to figure out why it's blacklisted then
> and
> > > am rolling snake eyes.  If anyone who is an admin for verizon or who
> has
> > > any insight to share I'd certainly appreciate it. Email to text is a
> > > critical function we depend on.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>