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In message <address@hidden>, "Jennie L. Moody" writes: > Jeff and Jeff, > > You guys are sites I have for upstream host and failover right now. > Yesterday I was getting all of the DDS/PPS/HRS feed products into > our server windfall from Penn State, however, we stopped getting any > of the Unidata McIDAS broadcast in the morning. I noticed this > early in the day, but was too busy to diagnose what was going wrong. > There were some network connection problems early in the morning, > so I thought that might have been the trouble ,but those seemed to clear up, > and then we continued to get all the non-Unidata Mcidas products we request, > but > no satellite data, etc. Jenny, The problem with your feed from PSU was on our end. We had a network switch fail yesterday morning. For some bizzare reason only the McIDAS data got hosed. Anyway, I'm out with the flu and I didn't notice that the McIDAS feed had stopped. Things should be flowing again as of about 10 minutes ago. -JEff