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Hi Baird, re: > Apologies for the confusion. I'm using LDM on a MacBook (laptop), and I had > disconnected it from the network when you tried earlier. No worries. re: > I just tried "ldmping", and it appears to be working now: > > mm108-lang2:~ ldm$ ldmping idd.unidata.ucar.edu > Feb 05 17:52:24 INFO: State Elapsed Port Remote_Host rpc_stat > Feb 05 17:52:24 INFO: Resolving idd.unidata.ucar.edu to 128.117.140.3 took > 0.090039 seconds > Feb 05 17:52:25 INFO: RESPONDING 0.519338 388 idd.unidata.ucar.edu Excellent! re: > Thanks for all of your help! I will be sure only to be running LDM when I'm > plugged into the network. You can certainly do other things while the LDM is running... the LDM runs very efficiently and uses as few system resources as possible. Your comment prompts the following comment: - the LDM is designed to run all of the time. The data available in the IDD is delivered in real-time, and there is no facility for providing old data The point is that you will want to run an LDM continuously on a machine to get the type(s) of data you want/need. It is then up to you as to what you want to do with the data (e.g., convert to a form usable by whatever application you will use to analyze the data; save off data into local archives; scour the data off of disk; etc.). Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TAK-151063 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed