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 <s...@sandiegobroadband.com> wrote: Same boat... We are sending messages to phonenum...@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-boun...@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 <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > Date: 8/16/16 6:09 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Mike <mike-na...@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... > > 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-na...@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.
