For what it's worth... this behaviour occurs on an SMSC operated by a large entity that sounds like Saferway <wink> and also has another name with *365 in it. ;-P
We basically wrap a cron script around the cgi/status of smsbox. And then ?stop and ?start the smsc=your_smsc when the connection is detected as dead. -- Benjamin Lee mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, Australia http://www.realthought.net Linux / BSD / GNU tel:+61 4 16 BEN LEE Open Source "... invest in your company, not their company..." "... invest in your world, not one country..." __________________________________________________________________________ We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"