# AIM Problem.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-problem/48428>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-problem/48428 "2001-01-04T18:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-problem/48428/1 "2001-01-04T18:10:11Z")

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I have been having a problem with AIM lately. Every 5 minutes or so it goes offline, and gets back on right away. Also, when I log on it says “rate limiting occured at login.” I wasn’t warned or anything like that. This started happening after my ISP’s DNS servers (Columbus Roadrunner) went down at midnight Dec. 30th. Anyone have any idea what is causing this?