[VoiceOps] Bandwidth East Coast Issues

Peter Beckman beckman at angryox.com
Sat Sep 25 19:31:42 EDT 2021


BW Status Page is showing 100% operational now. Our monitoring confirms
their supposition.

 	Monitoring - Bandwidth teams have seen overall network stability with
 	expected traffic behavior. We will continue to monitor the network.

 	Sep 25, 19:29 EDT

On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps wrote:

> Another Update
>
>    Update - Bandwidth continues to see portal and network improvements. At
>    this time, 911 & messaging traffic is processing as expected. We
>    continue to work to resolve other impacted services.
>
> 	Sep 25, 19:07 EDT
>
> The Status Page ( https://status.bandwidth.com/ ) is reporting that Inbound
> and Outbound is still entirely down. Our tests show that Inbound and
> Outbound are functioning, as is SMS messaging and the API.
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps wrote:
>
>> According to BW TAC it was a DDoS.
>> 
>> The outages list posted this:
>>
>>    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.
>> 
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman wrote:
>> 
>>> Our measurement of the outage was 3pm to 5:47pm US EDT, 2h 47m outage.
>>>    19:00 to 21:47 UTC
>>> 
>>> We haven't completely determined whether or not this was a full or partial
>>> outage, as we still saw some calls come in, but termination had issues as
>>> did SMS delivery for a portion of the outage period.
>>> 
>>> Latest BW Update
>>>
>>>    Update - Bandwidth continues to see portal and network improvements. At
>>>    this time, messaging traffic is processing as expected. We continue to
>>>    work to resolve other impacted services.
>>>
>>> 	Sep 25, 18:42 EDT
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Looks like things are recovering.
>>>> 
>>>> Our monitoring showed recovery around 21:47 to 21:52 UTC, about 30 
>>>> minutes
>>>> ago.
>>>> 
>>>> Latest Update
>>>>
>>>> 	Identified - Bandwidth has identified the cause of this incident and 
>>>> is
>>>> 	observing improved network and portal behavior.
>>>>
>>>> 	Sep 25, 18:18 EDT
>>>> 
>>>> All of my alarms have cleared, SMS messages are coming in reliably, 
>>>> Inbound
>>>> and Outbound calling seem restored in our tests.
>>>> 
>>>> Beckman
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Spoke too soon, Inbound SBCs are now timing out again as of 20:45:38 
>>>>> UTC.
>>>>> Monitoring these two IPs
>>>>>
>>>>> 		67.231.9.112
>>>>> 		67.231.13.113
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Another Update
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Update - Bandwidth teams continue to investigate Voice and Messaging
>>>>>> 	Failures. 911 calls are experiencing failures.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Customers may also experience portal and portal API time-outs, 
>>>>>> slowness, or
>>>>>> 	unresponsiveness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	All teams are working towards a resolution at this time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Sep 25, 16:34 EDT
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Our monitoring cleared our Inbound SBCs as of 20:34:24 UTC (4:34:24pm 
>>>>>> EDT)
>>>>>> as they are now responding at an acceptable rate. I just tested 
>>>>>> outbound
>>>>>> and got a call through to a Verizon Mobile, though the PDD was about 
>>>>>> 5-6
>>>>>> seconds.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Inbound seems to be working, albeit a bit slower than expected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Seems like we're on the path to full recovery.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Beckman
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> After a long silence, no updates other than "we're working on it."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	Update - Bandwidth teams continue to investigate Voice and Messaging 
>>>>>>> Failures.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	At this time, 911 calls are not impacted.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	Customers may also experience portal and portal API time-outs, 
>>>>>>> slowness, or unresponsiveness.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	All teams are working towards a resolution at this time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	Sep 25, 16:22 EDT
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We are still seeing some calls get through. SMS traffic is being 
>>>>>>> delivered
>>>>>>> faster and we have not seen any missed SMS messages. Worst SMS delay 
>>>>>>> was 9m
>>>>>>> 37s. Last 5 tests in the last 50 minutes were all under 21 seconds, 3 
>>>>>>> of 5
>>>>>>> were under 2 seconds.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> About half of our calls getting through are Canada DIDs.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Beckman
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> As of 3:31pm EDT Bandwidth has acknowledged the issue:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Investigating - Bandwidth is investigating an incident impacting 
>>>>>>>> Voice
>>>>>>>>    and Messaging Services. Calls and Messages may experience 
>>>>>>>> unexpected
>>>>>>>>    failures. All teams are actively engaged.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 	Sep 25, 15:31 EDT
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I will update here as I get updates.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Outbound calls still failing with timeouts, Inbound calls failing, 
>>>>>>>> SMS
>>>>>>>> messages are delayed, the delay now up to 8 minutes.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We began detecting issues with Bandwidth Inbound and Outbound Voice 
>>>>>>>>> and SMS
>>>>>>>>> starting at 19:00:38 UTC (3pm US Eastern Time). A TAC rep has 
>>>>>>>>> acknowledged
>>>>>>>>> issues are detected but their status page as of yet has not been 
>>>>>>>>> updated.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm seeing outbound calls time out, inbound calls to BW DIDs receive 
>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> "call cannot be completed" error on Verizon, and our SMS tests every 
>>>>>>>>> 10
>>>>>>>>> minutes that usually complete in under 2 seconds are taking 15 
>>>>>>>>> seconds to
>>>>>>>>> 3.65 minutes to reach us.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hope they find the culprit and get it fixed quickly!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> As of 3:27:45pm EDT their status page shows zero incidents
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> https://status.bandwidth.com/
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