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Those traceroutes clearly show the issue is on the last 2 hops or inside NOAA. Ray On Friday, February 19, 2016 2:39pm, "Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate" <address@hidden> said: > _______________________________________________ > conduit mailing list > address@hidden > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ If I were the conspiracy theory > type, I > might think to blame the > balkanization of all paths to the internet from NOAA sites via the Trusted > Internet Connection stuff. But I'm just hypothesizing. Or, they could be > running distro on overloaded VMs. > > gerry > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Patrick L. Francis <address@hidden> > wrote: > >> >> >> Art / Pete etc. al. J >> >> >> >> There seems to be a consistency is potential packet loss from no matter >> which route is taken into ncep… so whoever you are communicating with, >> you >> might have them investigate 140.90.111.36… reference the previous graphic >> shown and this new one here: >> >> >> >> http://drmalachi.org/files/ncep/ec2-ncep.png >> >> >> >> if you are unfamiliar with amazon ec2 routing, the first.. twenty >> something or so hops are just internal to amazon, and they don’t jump >> outside until you hit the internet2 hops, which then jump to gigapop, and >> from there to noaa internal.. so since this amazon box is in ashburn, >> physically it’s close, and has limited interruptions until that point.. >> >> >> >> the same hop causes more severe problems from my colo boxes, which are >> hurricane electric direct, which means that in those cases jumping from >> hurricane electric to 140.90.111.36 has “severe” problems (including >> packet >> loss) while jumping from amazon to I2 to gigapop to 140.90.111.36 also >> encounters issues, but not as severe.. >> >> >> >> hopefully this may help J Happy Friday J >> >> >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> --patrick >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Patrick L. Francis >> >> Vice President of Research & Development >> >> >> >> Aeris Weather >> >> >> >> http://aerisweather.com/ >> >> http://modelweather.com/ >> >> >> >> http://facebook.com/wxprofessor/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> *From:* address@hidden [mailto: >> address@hidden] *On Behalf Of *Arthur A Person >> *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2016 1:57 PM >> *To:* Pete Pokrandt <address@hidden> >> *Cc:* Bentley, Alicia M <address@hidden>; Michael Schmidt < >> address@hidden>; address@hidden < >> address@hidden>; _NCEP.List.pmb-dataflow < >> address@hidden>; Daes Support <address@hidden> >> *Subject:* Re: [conduit] Large CONDUIT latencies to UW-Madison >> idd.aos.wisc.edu starting the last day or two. >> >> >> >> Pete, >> >> >> >> We've been struggling with latencies for months to the point where I've >> been feeding gfs 0p25 from NCEP and the rest from Unidata... that is, up >> untl Feb 10th. The afternoon of the 10th, our latencies to NCEP dropped to >> what I consider "normal", an average maximum latency of about 30 seconds. >> Our networking folks and NCEP have been trying to identify what this >> problem was, but as far as I know, no problem has been identified or action >> taken. So, it appears it's all buried in the mysteries of the internet. >> I've switched data collection back to NCEP at this point, but I'm on the >> edge of my seat waiting to see if it reverts back to the old behavior... >> >> >> >> Art >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Pete Pokrandt" <address@hidden> >> *To: *"Carissa Klemmer - NOAA Federal" <address@hidden>, >> "Arthur A Person" <address@hidden>, "_NCEP.List.pmb-dataflow" < >> address@hidden> >> *Cc: *"address@hidden" <address@hidden>, >> "Michael Schmidt" <address@hidden>, "Bentley, Alicia M" < >> address@hidden>, "Daes Support" <address@hidden> >> *Sent: *Friday, February 19, 2016 12:20:20 PM >> *Subject: *Large CONDUIT latencies to UW-Madison idd.aos.wisc.edu >> starting the last day or two. >> >> All, >> >> >> >> Not sure if this is on my end or somewhere upstream, but the last several >> runs my CONDUIT latencies have been getting huge to the point where we are >> losing data. >> >> >> >> I did stop my ldm the other day to add in an alternate feed for Gilbert at >> allisonhous.com, not sure if that pushed me over a bandwidth limit, or by >> reconnecting we got hooked up to a different remote ldm, or taking a >> different path, that shot the latencies up. >> >> >> >> Seems to be really only CONDUIT, none of our other feeds show this kind of >> latency. >> >> >> >> Still looking into things locally, but wanted make people aware. I just >> rebooted idd.aos.wisc.edu, will see if that helps at all. >> >> >> >> Here's an ldmping and traceroute from idd.aos.wisc.edu to >> conduit.ncep.noaa.gov. >> >> >> >> [ldm@idd ~]$ ldmping conduit.ncep.noaa.gov >> >> Feb 19 17:16:08 INFO: State Elapsed Port Remote_Host >> rpc_stat >> >> Feb 19 17:16:08 INFO: Resolving conduit.ncep.noaa.gov to 140.90.101.42 >> took 0.00486 seconds >> >> Feb 19 17:16:08 INFO: RESPONDING 0.115499 388 conduit.ncep.noaa.gov >> >> >> >> >> >> traceroute to conduit.ncep.noaa.gov (140.90.101.42), 30 hops max, 60 byte >> packets >> >> 1 r-cssc-b280c-1-core-vlan-510-primary.net.wisc.edu (144.92.130.3) >> 0.760 ms 0.954 ms 0.991 ms >> >> 2 internet2-ord-600w-100G.net.wisc.edu (144.92.254.229) 18.119 ms >> 18.123 ms 18.107 ms >> >> 3 et-10-0-0.107.rtr.clev.net.internet2.edu (198.71.45.9) 27.836 ms >> 27.852 ms 27.838 ms >> >> 4 et-11-3-0-1276.clpk-core.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.4) 37.363 ms >> 37.363 ms 37.345 ms >> >> 5 noaa-i2.demarc.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.118) 38.051 ms 38.254 ms >> 38.401 ms >> >> 6 140.90.111.36 (140.90.111.36) 118.042 ms 118.412 ms 118.529 ms >> >> 7 140.90.76.69 (140.90.76.69) 41.764 ms 40.343 ms 40.500 ms >> >> 8 * * * >> >> 9 * * * >> >> 10 * * * >> >> >> >> Similarly to ncepldm >> >> >> >> [ldm@idd ~]$ ldmping ncepldm4.woc.noaa.gov >> >> Feb 19 17:18:40 INFO: State Elapsed Port Remote_Host >> rpc_stat >> >> Feb 19 17:18:40 INFO: Resolving ncepldm4.woc.noaa.gov to 140.172.17.205 >> took 0.001599 seconds >> >> Feb 19 17:18:40 INFO: RESPONDING 0.088901 388 ncepldm4.woc.noaa.gov >> >> ^C >> >> >> >> [ldm@idd ~]$ traceroute ncepldm4.woc.noaa.gov >> >> traceroute to ncepldm4.woc.noaa.gov (140.172.17.205), 30 hops max, 60 >> byte packets >> >> 1 r-cssc-b280c-1-core-vlan-510-primary.net.wisc.edu (144.92.130.3) >> 0.730 ms 0.831 ms 0.876 ms >> >> 2 internet2-ord-600w-100G.net.wisc.edu (144.92.254.229) 18.092 ms >> 18.092 ms 18.080 ms >> >> 3 ae0.3454.core-l3.frgp.net (192.43.217.223) 40.196 ms 40.226 ms >> 40.256 ms >> >> 4 noaa-i2.frgp.net (128.117.243.11) 40.970 ms 41.012 ms 40.996 ms >> >> 5 2001-mlx8-eth-1-2.boulder.noaa.gov (140.172.2.18) 42.780 ms 42.778 >> ms 42.764 ms >> >> 6 mdf-rtr-6.boulder.noaa.gov (140.172.6.251) 40.869 ms 40.922 ms >> 40.946 ms >> >> 7 * * * >> >> 8 * * * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Pete >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Pete Pokrandt - Systems Programmer >> UW-Madison Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences >> 608-262-3086 - address@hidden >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Arthur A. Person >> Research Assistant, System Administrator >> Penn State Department of Meteorology >> email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> conduit mailing list >> address@hidden >> For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >> > > > > -- > Gerry Creager > NSSL/CIMMS > 405.325.6371 > ++++++++++++++++++++++ > “Big whorls have little whorls, > That feed on their velocity; > And little whorls have lesser whorls, > And so on to viscosity.” > Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) > _______________________________________________ conduit mailing list address@hidden For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/