Re: LDM feed problem

As a follow-up to this issue, I have confirmed that the firewall you see in 
place at RU is not blocking your RPC calls (or anything else) into 
ldm.rutgers.edu. Could it be your DSL provider?

Tom

At 11:47 AM 3/20/2001 -0500, David Fitzgerald wrote:
> We feed from Rutgers as our primary feed site, and last week they changed
> the machine from where I can feed from ns2.rutgers.edu to ldm.rutgers.edu.
> We had been feeding from them through a separate DSL line which masks our
> LDM's IP address to be 207.44.114.42.  Tom Grzelak added 'allows' for this
> IP number to ns2 and everything was working well, until the changeover.  Tom
> states that these 'allows' are also present on the new machine but I keep
> getting 'RPC: Time out' errors if I try to connect through the DSL line.
> Connecting through our regular campus network, where my IP address is not
> masked , works just fine.   I can resolve ldm.rutgers.edu through DNS just
> fine, I can traceroute to it through our DSL line, but both feeding and
> notifyme's fail through the DSL.  Any ideas on why it worked fine on one
> machine but not another?
>
> Tom... I did notice that when I run a traceroute, I go through a firewall.
> Could this be the source of the problem?
>
> Dave
>
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