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LinuxBender | karma 53794 | avg karma 3.11 · 2020-06-15 22:23:00+00:00

SS7 would not affect website uptime. All the carrier websites are having issues.

[edit] As others have pointed out, if b-number routing is failing, then their support sites would be flooded with people checking their account. So maybe the subscribers are in effect overloading the sites. That would make sense.

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Rebelgecko | karma 12803 | avg karma 2.76 · 2020-06-15 22:27:20+00:00

Couldn't that just be the result of tens of millions of people simultaneously trying to contact support?

LinuxBender | karma 53794 | avg karma 3.11 · 2020-06-15 22:28:32+00:00

Could be. With SS7 outages, first things you would see is b-number analysis failing (call routing) and SMS text messages failing.

londons_explore | karma 35497 | avg karma 2.72 · 2020-06-15 22:31:45

As soon as there is a service outage, all the users go to the carrier website to try to complain or log in to check if they've paid their bill, etc.

A website designed for most users to visit once per year when their contract expires likely won't scale to everyone visiting in an hour...

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LinuxBender | karma 53794 | avg karma 3.11 · 2020-06-15 22:35:14+00:00

It's a sound theory. Hopefully one of the carriers owns up to their site not having capacity and/or b-number routing flub.

jaifraic | karma 71 | avg karma 1.42 · 2020-06-16 13:18:31

So... it actually is a DDoS attack ;)