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Bob, ATM had some switch work done this weekend, and traffic behavior looks like some packet shaping is occuring on all IDD traffic. We're looking into this with the NSF contacts. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: Bob Lipschutz <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200412201705.iBKH56lI021670 > >Unidata folks, > >There appears to be a problem with the CONDUIT service >from atm.geo.nsf.gov. Starting around 0307Z on 12/19 >(Saturday night) latency began increasing dramatically. >Since then, we've had very incomplete grids coming >through. Presently, notifyme to atm is not providing >anything. > >This morning, I switched our client (conduit.fsl.noaa.gov) >to request from idd.unidata.ucar.edu, which seems to be >doing just fine. > >FWIW, we're relying on the CONDUIT feed to acquire the >Eta (NAM) 212 grids that are used for RUC and WRF/NMM >(DWFE) initialization. This service has been quite reliable, >and much more timely than our previous slow ftp-ing from >NCEP or TG... > > Happy Holidays! > > Bob Lipschutz > NOAA / FSL > 303-497-6636 > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.