Andy Sillwood said,
> On 22-Jul-99 19:50:27, Phil S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>> When I try to dial-up to screaming.net genesis simply says BLACKLISTED
>>> ??????
>>I had this once with free4all - cock up on my part when trying to get Linux
>>PPP working. They said it was a standard msg from their server when the
>>passwork or link negotiation failed due to wrong password a number of times.
> Thats correct. With Free4all, if you get the password wrong 15 times, your
> account is blacklisted. This is to stop people forcing their way into others
> accounts by trying loads of passwords.
That's a completely different situation. what's happening here is that
the modem is blacklisting the number. It's to do with laws against using
automated software to continuously redial numbers, after a set number of
successive calls to a single number, the modem blocks further calls for
a period of time. It's an inevitable effect of using certain modems with
ISPs having insufficient dialup capacity.
Interestingly, the same restrictions don't seem to apply to ISDN, I was
checking out an ISP recently that required over forty attempts to
connect, yet there was no blacklisting problem. Not that there was much
advantage to ISDN in this case, even after connecting I was getting
slower speed than I normally get with a modem :(
Neil
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