An early telecommunications technique where a modem or specialized software repeatedly and aggressively dials a busy target number. Hackers and BBS users employed this method to brute-force their way into limited modem pools, seizing the line within milliseconds of another user disconnecting.
Heard on the job
I left the modem demon dialing the local BBS overnight just to get a slot to download the file.
Also heard as
- war dialing
- auto-redial