RE: request for upstream feed

Hi Rajul, 

A failover site is not needed, but strongly recommended.

Penn State has proven quite reliable, but it would behoove us to have a
failover in place in case something happens. I will investigate some
options and be back with you.

Thanks,

-Jeff
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Pandya, Rajul E. wrote:

> Hi Jeff, 
> 
> On the ldm pages, it talks about setting up a failover site - do I need an
> additional upstream host for that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajul
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Jeff Weber [SMTP:address@hidden]
> > Sent:       Monday, 14 August 2000 15:42
> > To: Arthur A. Person
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject:    Re: request for upstream feed (fwd)
> > 
> > Art, 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you....
> > 
> > -Jeff
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> > University Corp for Atmospheric Research      3300 Mitchell Ln
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> > ________________________________________      ______________________
> > 
> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Arthur A. Person wrote:
> > 
> > > Jeff, Rajul,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jeff Weber wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Art has been gracious enough to allow West Chester to feed from his
> > > > machine:
> > > > 
> > > > navierldm.meteo.psu.edu
> > > 
> > > I've added rossby.wcupa.edu to my allow list.
> > > 
> > > > So Rajul, barring the negative traceroute results, we are going ahead
> > with
> > > > your connect for feed from Penn State. Art feels it is more an
> > internal
> > > > issue and should not alter the IDD performance. So lets give it a
> > whirl.
> > > 
> > > I checked further into the traceroute problem... found it worked if I
> > used
> > > -I to used ICMP echoes instead of UDP, which is wierd, so I just decided
> > > to reboot, and now things seem to be working normally.  Apparently UDP
> > > broke from some reason for traceroute.  Perhaps you could give
> > traceroute
> > > a try again and see if things look okay now.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if there's anything else I can do.
> > > 
> > >                                        Art.
> > > 
> > > Arthur A. Person
> > > Research Assistant, System Administrator
> > > Penn State Department of Meteorology
> > > email:  address@hidden, phone:  814-863-1563
> > > 
> > > 
>