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Chris, Could you put an allow UNIDATA|FSL2 in the ldmd.conf file for the University of Puerto Rico . If you inspect the following information it appears that their usual connection sequence in no longer reliable. If this ends up being a burden on your network or machine we can look for an alternative. Thanks Robb... machine: rmocfis.upr.clu.edu On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, McIDAS wrote: > Here's the Ping information for twister.millersv.edu from IRIX 6.4: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > PING twister.millersv.edu (166.66.34.16): 56 data bytes > 36 bytes from mae-east.voicenet.net (192.41.177.97): Communication > prohibited for icmp_seq=6 > 36 bytes from mae-east.voicenet.net (192.41.177.97): Communication > prohibited for icmp_seq=12 > 36 bytes from mae-east.voicenet.net (192.41.177.97): Communication > prohibited for icmp_seq=26 > 36 bytes from mae-east.voicenet.net (192.41.177.97): Communication > prohibited for icmp_seq=29 > > ----twister.millersv.edu PING Statistics---- > 68 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The site was pinged for about 20 seconds, and as you can see none of the > packets arrived. This is what the trace looks like: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tracing route to twister.millersv.edu [166.66.34.16] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 136.145.164.1 > 2 827 ms 794 ms * 136.145.201.1 > 3 898 ms 856 ms 835 ms PRDVnetT3.CLU.EDU [136.145.1.25] > 4 853 ms 912 ms * 208.234.33.49 > 5 839 ms 905 ms 948 ms 63.69.203.1 > 6 839 ms 847 ms * Serial2-1-0.GW2.MIA1.ALTER.NET > [157.130.70.141] > 7 913 ms 812 ms 874 ms 117.ATM3-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.234] > 8 926 ms 891 ms * 195.ATM8-0-0.BR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.49] > 9 923 ms * * core3-hssi3-0.Atlanta.cw.net > [206.157.77.113] > //Apparently this backbone > 10 * * * Request timed out. > 11 * 1022 ms 810 ms mae-east3-nap.Washington.cw.net > [204.70.1.22] > //has problems > 12 * * * Request timed out. > 13 mae-east.voicenet.net [192.41.177.97] reports: Destination net > unreachable. > > Trace complete. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This problem has persisted for several days. > Pinging our now primary server returns all packets, as you also see in > its trace: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Tracing route to aqua.atmos.uah.edu [198.116.60.19] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 136.145.164.1 > 2 828 ms 796 ms * 136.145.201.1 > 3 736 ms 928 ms 789 ms PRDVnetT3.CLU.EDU [136.145.1.25] > 4 749 ms 863 ms 718 ms 208.234.33.49 > 5 811 ms 879 ms 805 ms 63.69.203.1 > 6 940 ms * 789 ms Serial2-1-0.GW2.MIA1.ALTER.NET > [157.130.70.141] > 7 790 ms 842 ms 1035 ms 117.ATM3-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.234] > 8 1014 ms 858 ms 939 ms 195.ATM3-0.TR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.86] > 9 885 ms 690 ms 906 ms 109.ATM4-0.TR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.136.14] > 10 * 885 ms * 199.ATM6-0.XR1.TCO1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.161.161] > 11 * 957 ms 882 ms 193.ATM8-0-0.BR1.TCO1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.160.65] > 12 820 ms * * mae-east.nsn.nasa.gov [192.41.177.125] > 13 1110 ms 1091 ms * 128.161.10.18 > 14 * 1024 ms 948 ms 192.149.89.22 > 15 1016 ms * 928 ms 192.149.89.90 > 16 1144 ms 979 ms * aqua.atmos.uah.edu [198.116.60.19] > 17 982 ms 976 ms 1088 ms aqua.atmos.uah.edu [198.116.60.19] > > Trace complete. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tracing the third server, sapodilla.rsmas.miami.edu, works perfectly > fine: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tracing route to sapodilla.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.98.131] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 136.145.164.1 > 2 838 ms 900 ms * 136.145.201.1 > 3 * 784 ms 844 ms PRDVnetT3.CLU.EDU [136.145.1.25] > 4 912 ms 919 ms 856 ms 208.234.33.49 > 5 829 ms 844 ms 802 ms 63.69.203.1 > 6 827 ms 956 ms 854 ms Serial2-1-0.GW2.MIA1.ALTER.NET > [157.130.70.141] > 7 790 ms 945 ms 782 ms 117.ATM2-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.230] > 8 839 ms 1024 ms 933 ms 194.ATM11-0-0.GW1.MIA1.ALTER.NET > [146.188.232.133] > 9 869 ms 937 ms 950 ms bs-miai-gw.customer.ALTER.NET > [157.130.69.102] > 10 764 ms 682 ms 854 ms 205.152.16.196 > 11 840 ms * * 172.25.83.66 > 12 737 ms 1019 ms * 216.79.12.34 > 13 712 ms 807 ms 967 ms cen7513.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.4] > 14 864 ms 935 ms * centrex-rsmas-ds1.tel.miami.edu > [129.171.160.3] > 15 923 ms 1020 ms * sapodilla.rsmas.miami.edu > [129.171.98.131] > 16 961 ms 971 ms 891 ms sapodilla.rsmas.miami.edu > [129.171.98.131] > > Trace complete. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > You were right, it is the backbone that seems to be down or not working > properly. We could use another server should the remaining one remain > uncommunicated. > > Thanks, > > Karli Lopez > > > Robb Kambic wrote: > > > > Karli, > > > > I don't think your feeder sites are down, it's the connection to them that > > is broken. I would suggest doing a traceroute to the sites and then send > > the results back to me when you can't connect. Also you should try to a > > traceroute to sapodilla.rsmas.miami.edu, let's see what that looks like. > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric > > Research > > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > > =============================================================================== > > -- > > ==================================================================== > Amos Winter address@hidden > Director > Puerto Rico Climatology Center > P.O. Box 9013 > Department of Marine Sciences phone: (787) 265-5416 > University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez fax: (787) 265-2195 > Mayaguez, PR 00681-9013 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================