[Support #MYT-191603]: Re: Purdue Nexrad 2 feed down? DNS issue?

Hi Pete,

re:
> Actually, I just checked idd stats on the unidata web site, and it looks
> like eas is now itap (castor.itap.purdue.edu)

I noticed this as just after seeing your email.

> Did I miss an email about their domain change?

We have received nothing from Purdue wrt a domain name change.

> Anyways, I think all is good now.

Very good.  In the future, if you run into a problem feeding from Purdue, you
can use idd.unidata.ucar.edu as a failover.  Please stick with Purdue when
they are up, however.

> Pete Pokrandt wrote:
> > I just received an email from one of my downstreams at uiowa that he
> > stopped getting NEXRAD2 data from me around 3:30 PM CDT yesterday. I
> > just looked and I'm not seeing anything from purdue. In fact, my name
> > lookups aren't working for purdue:
> >
> > [poker@sysadm ~]$ nslookup castor.eas.purdue.edu
> > Server:         144.92.130.182
> > Address:        144.92.130.182#53
> >
> > ** server can't find castor.eas.purdue.edu: NXDOMAIN
> >
> > [poker@sysadm ~]$ nslookup pollux.eas.purdue.edu
> > Server:         144.92.130.182
> > Address:        144.92.130.182#53
> >
> > ** server can't find pollux.eas.purdue.edu: NXDOMAIN
> >
> > I've tried from different DNS servers, and I get the same result, so I
> > don't think the NS lookup problem is just me. Since the DNS is down, I
> > can't email purdue to see what's up or notify them there may be a
> > problem.
> >
> > Can you  1) Provide me with an alternate non-purdue NEXRAD2 feed and
> > 2) see if you can nslookup/host the purdue sites and 3) contact the
> > Purdue folks if it does look to be a problem on their end and see
> > what's up?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     RE: whirlwind.aos.wisc.edu
> > Date:     Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:19:31 -0500
> > From:     Miller, Brian S <address@hidden>
> > To:     Pete Pokrandt <address@hidden>
> > References:
> > <address@hidden>
> > <address@hidden>
> >
> >
> >
> > OK, I got it changed to the new server, but I am still not getting
> > NEXRAD2 data.  Here is my entry in the ldmd.conf
> >
> > request ANY ".*" idd.aos.wisc.edu
> >
> >
> > When I run: ldmadmin watch -f NEXRAD2
> > I get nothing.
> > All other data is coming in as far as I can tell.
> >
> > [ldm@nexraditr etc]$ ldmadmin watch
> > (Type ^D when finished)
> > Apr 08 14:18:17 pqutil INFO:    12009 20080408141816.175 NNEXRAD
> > 203170382  SDUS54 KAMA 081416 /pN0RAMA
> > Apr 08 14:18:17 pqutil INFO:     2851 20080408141816.175 NNEXRAD
> > 203170383  SDUS34 KMEG 081408 /pNVWNQA
> > Apr 08 14:18:17 pqutil INFO:     6525 20080408141816.176 NNEXRAD
> > 203170384  SDUS26 KPDT 081416 /pN1RPDT
> > .....
> > .....
> > .....
> >
> >
> > I have plenty of disk space and I did a ldmadmin stop and ldmadmin
> > start.  Should I reboot the server?
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pete Pokrandt [mailto:address@hidden] Sent: Tuesday, April
> > 08, 2008 9:14 AM
> > To: Miller, Brian S
> > Subject: Re: whirlwind.aos.wisc.edu
> >
> > Miller, Brian S wrote:
> >>
> >> Pete-
> >>
> >> I stopped getting NEXRAD2 data from whirlwind yesterday at about
> >> 3:30PM on my ldm machine.
> >>
> >> Did I miss an email about changing that to a new machine or did it
> >> just die?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >
> > Brian,
> >
> > Whirlwind was up and fine as far as I can tell, so you should have still
> >
> > been getting data, but just to make sure, I stopped and restarted the
> > ldm on it.
> >
> > However, I *did* change my primary idd relay machine over a year ago (!)
> >
> > to be idd.aos.wisc.edu. You should be all set to feed NEXRAD2 data
> > from that machine as well. In fact, I would prefer if you could switch
> > to start pulling data from idd.aos.wisc.edu instead. On both machines
> > I have the following allow lines for uiowa.edu:
> >
> > #
> > # U of Iowa
> > # Brian Miller <address@hidden>
> > allow   NEXRAD2 ^nexraditr.iihr.uiowa.edu$
> >
> > #address@hidden
> > #and/or
> > #address@hidden
> > allow   NEXRAD2 ^idd.cgrer.uiowa.edu$
> >
> > Give it a try, and let me know how it goes, or if you have any
> > questions/problems.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> 
> 
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> 

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MYT-191603
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed