Unfortunately I am not in the same boat here in Milwaukee WI all messages to vtext.com personal and business on greater that four subnets that we own are being delivered. I would suspect what you are seeing may be a local problem to be resolved soon. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Aug 16, 2016, at 18:33, Sam Norris <Sam@SanDiegoBroadband.com> wrote: Same boat... We are sending messages to PHONENUMBER@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@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.
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-------- Original message -------- From: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com> Date: 8/16/16 6:09 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Email to text - vtext.com blacklisting ip
If it's critical I'd suggest a service than can depended on...
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On Aug 16, 2016 5:45 PM, "Mike" <mike-nanog@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.