Well, It looks like any other billing reconciliation. I mean you are charged for each SMS your SMSc is billing. You are charging your clients, according to your own logs. Ask for the SMSc logs, pull your own logs and follow the money trail...
One thing for certain, it is not a configuration or application error from kannel, since it doesn't show in the logs. Good luck, Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:19 AM Subject: RE: smsc bombardment without smsbox running Thanks I will contact the SMSC. I don't know if this makes any difference, but…. The test setup is on the same computer I use to ssh into the "real" setup, which has a different IP but is on the same subnet. I was sending SMSs from the "real" setup, but about two a day, and that is evident in those logs, nothing near a message ever few seconds. I can't imagine how this would affect anything, but maybe you all have some ideas. Thanks J From: Nikos Balkanas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:06 AM To: Benaiad; von Gunten-Hinke Jessica, SCS-NIT-NIO-SE-ISC Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: smsc bombardment without smsbox running Nice! Smart guess. However, if J's bearerbox shows no SMS sent, that bbox didn't send them. @jessika: I would contact my SMSc. Seems it was their mistake leaving the ports open to the old box. Maybe they are mistaken again about the IP address and it is the new box. Even more could be the 2 boxes are NATed to the same IP. If all these fail, get a from/to field from one of these offending messages, and try to match (access logs) from which bbox it originated, because it doesn't seem that your original bbox sent them. BR, Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: Benaiad To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:23 AM Subject: Re: smsc bombardment without smsbox running Maybe you've set "bearerbox-host" in the sms-group and it was pointing to the old machine. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: The computer was on the network.Β It is just that the SMSC blocks the port in question to users who aren't of pre-approved IPs. As for smsbox being somehow started, I am the only one using that computer, and I haven't started it (smsbox) in at least two weeks.Β Also, I never definately never configured any routing options.Β And also, according to bearerbox logs nothing was sent.Β All I see is it confirming its connection about every 5 minutes.Β This doesn't at all account for the messages which were being sent every few seconds, according to SMSC.Β (I'm not entirely convinced that there isn't some exaggeration on their part) Β Thanks for your reply Β J Β From: Nikos Balkanas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:45 AM To: von Gunten-Hinke Jessica, SCS-NIT-NIO-SE-ISC; [email protected] Subject: Re: smsc bombardment without smsbox running Β Hi, Β The only thing that I can think of, is that an *smsbox* (or SQLbox) got active somehow. I mean, you were sure that no network access was to the SMSc, and yet there was. How difficult would be to start smsbox? Propably someone needed to use it and enabled the network and smsbox. The only configuration without smsbox that can enable that (provifed that network exists) are the reroute & reroute-smsc-id options in the smsc group. Β These problems can best be diagnosed while still active, i.e. without rebooting/restarting application or server. ToΒ find outΒ you need to look at the bearerbox logs (access +application) and see where bearerbox got SMS from. Β Β BR, Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:16 AM Subject: smsc bombardment without smsbox running Β Hi All, Β I have a strange situation. Β I set up kannel.Β It was a functional setup but it was on a computer whose IP didn't have access to my SMSC's port. Β Later I made the "real" setup on another computer and more or less abandoned the other.Β Β Bearerbox remained set to start at boot on the original computer, but not smsbox.Β The computer had been rebooted a number of times, so there is no reason to think smsbox was still running,since there was no one to turn start it.Β Regardless the SMSC has called and said they are being bombarded with SMSs, which they are rejecting, which are originating from the original computer's IP.Β I really don't understand how this could be, since smsbox wasn't started, and no one has tried to send SMSs from it. Β Does anyone know of a scenario which could explain this, due to configurations otherwise? Β TIA Β J Β
