Re: 20030309: thelma

Mike,

ping doesn't require a DNS lookup, so it will work.  ldmping requires
a connection to the LDM which does a forward and reverse DNS lookup
for authentication -- so DNS is what's causing this problem too.

mike

On Mar 10,  8:18am, Mike Voss wrote:
> Subject: Re: 20030309: thelma
> Steve,
> Thanks for the reply. I agree there is some DNS problem, which we haven't
> resolved. I was out of town and not in a good trouble shooting enviroment.
> However, some things I don't understand, eg, I can ping thelma, but not
> ldmping it... while I can do both for say typhoon at UCLA...? Anyhow, I'm
> sure it's our problem, but these clues were throwing me off.
>
> ----
> rossby:~/etc>ping thelma.ucar.edu
> thelma.ucar.edu is alive
> rossby:~/etc>ldmping thelma.ucar.edu
> Mar 10 16:10:08      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host
> rpc_stat
> Mar 10 16:10:18 SVC_UNAVAIL   9.991735    0   thelma.ucar.edu
> h_clnt_create(thelma.ucar.edu): Timed out while creating connection
> ^C
> rossby:~/etc>ldmping typhoon.atmos.ucla.edu
> Mar 10 16:14:15      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host
> rpc_stat
> Mar 10 16:14:16 RESPONDING   0.509260  388   typhoon.atmos.ucla.edu
> ^C
> rossby:~/etc>ldmping thelma.ucar.edu
> Mar 10 16:14:24      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host
> rpc_stat
> ^C
> rossby:~/etc>
>
> thanks,
> -Mike