In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008012310510.14133-100000@rfhpc8320.fh-regensburg.de>,
	Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> It seems the trailing '.' is mandatory, though I don't need this with any
> other ISP I've tried. Can anyone here confirm that the '.' is needed, or
> give some hings on what's going on?

It looks more like your modem doesn't like any data transfer immediately
after the connect. Writing a script which uses chat and does a "sleep 5"
after the connect should fix it.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/