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Hsie, Could you add an allow UNIDATA|FSL2 for the National Scientific Balloon Facility-Palestine? They have been having troubles receiving data from most of the other feeder sites. But, the traceroutes to cirrus seems the best bet so far. If this doesn't work out, we will look for an alternative. site name: wxmcidas.nsbf.nasa.gov Thanks, Robb... On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, weather wrote: > Robb, > > The ping -s and traceroutes to Colostate are a little shaky. > The traceroute to cirrus.al.noaa.gov is great, a good routing > because they are on the NSN as well. Would it be possible to > feed from them (I assume they are getting everything plus FSL2) > and keep aurora as a backup? I think if we could get a constant > reliable feed that we would be free to feed someone. I am getting > fairly comfortable with the ldm and Unix in general. We would > certainly like to participate as much as possible. > > traceroute to cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73), 30 hops max, 40 byte > packets > 1 nsi-nsbfnm-gw.nsbf.nasa.gov (198.120.3.1) 2.310 ms 2.092 ms 2.282 ms > 2 s-JPL-NSBFNM.NSN.NASA.GOV (128.161.167.1) 35.670 ms 33.873 ms 33.681 ms > 3 s-NCAR1.NSN.NASA.GOV (128.161.97.2) 82.810 ms 76.565 ms 80.313 ms > 4 s-sec.nsn.nasa.gov (128.161.150.2) 105.782 ms 116.077 ms 101.723 ms > 5 brdwy-rtr.boulder.noaa.gov (140.172.6.253) 125.253 ms 121.415 ms > 100.640 > ms > 6 2a121-asn1-bb.boulder.noaa.gov (140.172.6.52) 132.313 ms 112.375 ms > 149.920 ms > 7 cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73) 122.264 ms * 126.809 ms > > /usr/local/ldm/logs% ping -s cirrus.al.noaa.gov > PING cirrus.al.noaa.gov: 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=0. time=96. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=1. time=115. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=2. time=113. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=3. time=97. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=4. time=120. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=5. time=131. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=6. time=123. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=7. time=140. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=8. time=138. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=9. time=113. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=10. time=122. ms > 64 bytes from cirrus.al.noaa.gov (140.172.240.73): icmp_seq=11. time=135. ms > ^C > ----cirrus.al.noaa.gov PING Statistics---- > 12 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 96/120/140 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================