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>From: McIDAS <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Puerto Rico >Keywords: 199907222125.PAA02872 IDD MCIDAS Karli (with CC to Robb Kambic), re: you should now be getting the images in the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream >Yes, we are now getting the full complement, thanks! I am glad to hear that things are flowing again. >re: I thought that twister.millersv.edu was a failover site for you; true? >Well, it may have been, but we'd been operating on it for quite a while, >and starting July 15th communications had gone down altogether (as you >can see in the following ping, and had been the topic of a previous >discussion which took place a few days ago). Yes, I do remember our previous conversation, but I never understood the problem in getting data from Millersivlle. After our first conversation regarding you getting data from them, and several times since, I have done LDM notifymes to Millersville to see what there status was. In all cases, the were up and functioning with a full complement of data. >So we now need a new failover site: > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >breeze 12% ping twister.millserv.edu >ping: twister.millserv.edu: Unknown host >[2] + Done nedit mcidas/data/VANESSA.BAT >breeze 13% ping twister.millersv.edu >PING twister.millersv.edu (166.66.34.16): 56 data bytes >36 bytes from voicenet-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.6.58): >Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=0 >36 bytes from voicenet-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.6.58): >Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=1 >36 bytes from voicenet-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.6.58): >Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=3 >36 bytes from voicenet-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.6.58): >Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=4 >----twister.millersv.edu PING Statistics---- >6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Doing a trace revealed that the destination network was unreachable. This seems like a router problem to me. I am passing this along to Robb Kambic (our LDM/IDD support person) for further attention. Robb will either be able to help out in getting the above problem figured out or in assigning you a different failover site. >Thank you for you help, You are welcome. Tom