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>From: "Steven E. McKee" <address@hidden> >Organization: Lyndon State College >Keywords: 200205231332.g4NDWoa01355 IDD LDM Steven, >At LSC we are in the process of building a new LDM on our new server >foxfire.lsc.vsc.edu (155.42.21.12). For testing we would like to receive >data directly from Unidata. Presently we are feeding the new LDM from our >server cirrus.lsc.vsc.edu (155.42.21.3) LDM. Our server cirrus has become >very unstable for the last few months, is it possible we could receive data >for both cirrus and foxfire until foxfire's LDM has been configured and >tested? Depending on how long the test needs to run, the answer is yes, a second feed to Lyndon can be arranged. You must remember, however, that this will affect your network since twice the amount of data will be flowing to you. >Does foxfire need to be in VSC's DNS server before we can receive >data or does Unidata serve data by address? Part of the LDM security is provided by doing both forward and reverse name lookups for machines requesting feeds. This is best done when the machine is well known to DNS. It can be gotten around on the serving machine by specifying the name/IP combination in /etc/hosts. This is not a reliable long term solution, however, since the server machine has no knowledge of when a site decides to change the receipt machine's name and/or IP. I setup a machine that is under our control to allow foxfire to request all datastreams except those that are required to be send point-to-point (NLDN, WSI). Please see if this machine will allow requests for feeds as follows: <login to foxfire as 'ldm'> notifyme -vxl- -f ANY -h atm.geo.nsf.gov Your request will in the least be relcassed (since you will be denied feed of NLDN and WSI), but it should work other than that. Please let me know the results of the notifyme invocation. Also, when do you envision running the test, and how long do you want to run it? Tom Yoksas