# Plivo: SMS and Calls failing due to DNS DDOS attack

> Plivo status incident “SMS and Calls failing due to DNS DDOS attack” on 2016-10-21: impact major (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/plivo/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty
Last updated: 2016-10-21T12:00:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2016-10-21 12:00 UTC · Resolved: 2016-10-21 12:00 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.plivo.com/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty](https://status.plivo.com/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty)
- [Company: Plivo](https://rewindex.com/company/plivo.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2016-10-21 12:00 UTC: Due to the active DDoS attack on public DNS services we are seeing elevated rates of call and SMS failures/delays currently. We are actively working on getting this resolved.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: major) posted by Plivo, started 2016-10-21 12:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/plivo/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty
- Citation: Plivo, “SMS and Calls failing due to DNS DDOS attack” (2016-10-21 12:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/plivo/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Plivo: SMS and Calls failing due to DNS DDOS attack (2016-10-21)](https://rewindex.com/company/plivo/incidents/9xbls4rz2yty)`


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