[Gllug] Can't connect to the Internet.

[Dermot Moynihan]

Thanks Mike.
Got it sorted.
Dermot

At 00:13 11/11/02, you wrote:
>On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 20:37, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
>
> > I was quite happy all day occcasionally using wvdial to get me on the
> > Internet. Later on in the day I was unable to get on coz of onetel.net
> > being oversubscribed or something. Instead of a dial tone I get a drone
> > sound. Anyway I'd press Ctrl+C to disconnect and get rid of the drone and
> > then run wvdial again. I must have done this about five times when I
> > suddenly got a message saying "BLACKLISTED".
>
>Wow - it's ages since I've seen that. The "BLACKLISTED" message is a
>response from your modem, indicating that the number you're attempting
>to dial has been blacklisted by the modem, usually because you've had
>too many dial attempts to that number in quick succession. It's a
>hardware thing designed to prevent people using modems for war-dialling.
>The only way round it is to power cycle the modem, which resets the
>internal blacklist, or to wait until a timeout passes, after which the
>modem will reset it's own blacklist.
>
>Mike.
>
>
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