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<p class="MsoNormal">If they just realized a server was down, from 2/14, just now, I’d say they have bigger support issues<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jared Geiger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 08, 2019 2:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nanog@nanog.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:52 AM David Hubbard <<a href="mailto:dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com">dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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…
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=<a href="mailto:dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org" target="_blank">dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org</a>> on behalf of Mark Stevens <<a href="mailto:manager@monmouth.com" target="_blank">manager@monmouth.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<br>
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On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org" target="_blank"><nanog-bounces@nanog.org></a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Oliver O'Boyle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Hoppes <a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net" target="_blank">
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<b>Cc:</b> North American Network Operators' Group <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <<a href="mailto:bsvec@teamonesolutions.com" target="_blank">bsvec@teamonesolutions.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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called Syniverse to relay messages. The vendor said in a statement that its IT staff unknowingly caused the texts to be delivered this week."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already<br>
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