[Outages-discussion] [outages] Fwd: Your Bandwidth support ticket is updated (Connection issue on trunk)

[Rusty Dekema]

Maybe it's the work of pro-TDM, anti-VoIP extremists. ;)

-Rusty

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 7:08 PM Peter Beckman via Outages
<outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
> Our monitoring first detected the issue at 3:00:03pm US EDT (19:00:03 UTC)
> and we detected recovery starting at 5:47:49pm US EDT (21:47:49 UTC) for a
> total outage of 2h 47m.
>
> When I first called at 3:07pm the TAC was not aware of any issues. I opened
> a ticket at 3:15pm and the status page was first updated at 3:31pm. Quite a
> delay.
>
> Thanks for posting this, Bruce! I look forward to the COE/RFO, how it was
> mitigated, and how they hope to reduce the impact of DDoS attacks in the
> future.
>
> After this and the VoIP.ms DDoS, it begs the question who the bad actors
> are and what their goals are. Infrastructure attack? Misdirection?
> Telephony attack to end-around TFA for targeted individuals? US Government
> Red Team?
>
> Beckman
>
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Bruce Freshwater via Outages wrote:
>
> > From the source
> >
> > -bruce
> > ________________________________
> > From: Joe DaSilva (Bandwidth Support) <ticketing at bandwidth.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:06:53 PM
> > To: Ben Beige <bbeige at sierraexperts.com>
> > Cc: Telephony <telephony at sierraexperts.com>
> > Subject: Your Bandwidth support ticket is updated (Connection issue on trunk)
> >
> > Joe DaSilva (Bandwidth Support)
> >
> > Sep 25, 2021, 6:06 PM EDT
> >
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > Bandwidth is currently experiencing a DDoS attack which is intermittently
> > impacting our network. Our network operations and engineering teams are
> > actively engaged in critical efforts to protect our network and fully
> > restore all services as rapidly as possible. We will be sure to post key
> > information and updates to status.bandwidth.com as our efforts progress
> > and we have additional information to share.
>
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> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
> beckman at angryox.com                                https://www.angryox.com/
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