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Hello,As of 17:45 UTC we have regained external network connectivity. Only incoming data was affected starting yesterday around 21:00 UTC. All connectivity was lost between 16:30 and 17:30 today.
The outage was due to hardware problem with the UWisconsin Campus network, however I have not received the details, but it obviously did not affect everyone on Campus equally.
Jerry Pete Pokrandt wrote:
All, As yet unidentified network problems began at UW Madison yesterdayafternoon around 4PM local time (21 UTC). At the current time, SSEC appears to be more affected than AOS. I stopped receiving any data from unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu around 11:30 AM local time today (16:30 UTC).I have failed over to thelma.ucar.edu for NEXRAD|FNEXRAD and to atm.geo.nsf.gov for IDS|DDPLUS|HDS Data seems to be flowing, so downstreams from me should be getting data again soon. Support@unidata, if I should be failing over to someone else, please let me know. From the tech-email list on campus, here is the announcement of what is going on:There is a network problem. The only info I have is that the network (or parts of it) went down around 3:38p yesterday. It came up sporadically but went down again. Network engineering is working on it; there is no diagnosis yet. We'll post something as soon as we get the info.Happy Thursday! Pete -- +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+ ^ Pete Pokrandt V 1447 AOSS Bldg 1225 W Dayton St^ ^ Systems Programmer V Madison, WI 53706 ^ ^ V address@hidden ^ ^ Dept of Atmos & Oceanic Sciences V (608) 262-3086 (Phone/voicemail) ^ ^ University of Wisconsin-Madison V 262-0166 (Fax) ^ +<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+
-- Jerrold Robaidek Email: address@hidden SSEC Data Center Phone: (608) 262-6025 University of Wisconsin Fax: (608) 263-6738 Madison, Wisconsin