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Hi Don, re: > The DNS people here have not assigned an IP address to the DNS name. ??? A machine always has an IP address, but it may or may not have a fully qualified name associated with the IP address. re: > They > had asked me to get the IP address of the system that we would be > communicating with first. But given your email, I'll go back and ask them > to assign an IP address and configure the DNS for forward and reverse > look-up. Very good. re: > If you have an IP address for the data feed machine, please send it to me > so that I can address their request. The IP address for our IDD relay cluster is that assigned to the director of the cluster, idd.unidata.ucar.edu: % nslookup idd.unidata.ucar.edu Server: 192.168.72.2 Address: 192.168.72.2#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: idd.unidata.ucar.edu Address: 128.117.140.3 > We only need one feed at this point to further test the installation of the > system. OK. 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: KVP-682832 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed