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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Bryan G. White wrote: > Thru much suffering, I've found out that ldm does not support alias hostnames. Bryan, The ldm does support aliases, but your dns has to be configured correctly to use them. On a solaris machine the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts need to be configured correctly. > > Therefore could you switch ldm.met.utah.edu to teewinot.met.utah.edu > There would be a major overhead at this point to change the hostname so it's still entered as ldm.met.utah.edu. > Thanks, > > > Bryan White > > > > > On Tue, 16 Aug 1999, Robb Kambic wrote: > > > > The host ldm.met.utah.edu is now permitted to receive model data from host > > flip.unidata.ucar.edu using feedtype NCM2|SPARE > > I mistyped the feedtypes it's NMC2|SPARE Try again after checking the dns. Robb.... > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================