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Hi there, Thank you for using our reporting form. We received your submission. > Installation: CAVE - Direct Windows > Version: 20.3.2-03 > Specific Menu or Resource: EDEX acess? > Description: "Found that my old installation of Cave / AWIPS II wasn't > pulling down data, saw that there was a new version, > 20.3.2.0-3. Server validation at startup fails with ""unknown > host"" error. Nslookup for edex-beta.unidata.ucar.edu > against both cloudflare and google DNS servers return > ""Non-existent domain"". > Is public EDEX server access still supported?" The version and EDEX you are referencing was our v20 beta AWIPS. We have since released a production version of v20. Our latest version of CAVE is 20.3.2-2 which can be downloaded and installed from our website: https://unidata.github.io/awips2/install/install-cave/#windows This connects to our public EDEX at edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu Thanks. --Shay Carter She/Her/Hers AWIPS Software Engineer NSF Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform