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Re: Login Failures

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From: Metalhed
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00
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"Anthony R. Gold" <tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Starting this afternoon I have experienced a large number of login 
>failures. The Demon terminal server does not echo the host name I send 
>after the login: prompt and never continues to prompt for password:.  It's 
>happened over a whole range of terminal servers and if NET kept a log of 
>such things, I'd know them now, but I've seen this on London vPoP, London 
>tPop and Luton vPoP phone numbers.
>
>I've tried adding a 3 second delay between the terminal server sending 
>"login:" and my script actually sending my host name, on the theory that 
>perhaps the terminal server was not really ready to receive the id when it 
>prompted for it, but I am not convinved that this has helped.  It 
>certainly has not completely cured the problem.

Yep me too.............don't know why it's suddenly started but BT
must be laughing. They'll still get a minimum 5p for every login
failure and it's starting to mount up!

Ken
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From: ken@metalhed.demon.co.uk (Metalhed)
Subject: Re: Login Failures
Date: 1995/11/25
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