This archive contains answers to questions sent to Unidata support through mid-2025. Note that the archive is no longer being updated. We provide the archive for reference; many of the answers presented here remain technically correct, even if somewhat outdated. For the most up-to-date information on the use of NSF Unidata software and data services, please consult the Software Documentation first.
Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > Anne, > > I have used notifyme on papagayo, and it always seems to be pretty much on > time. I double check the IDD latency stats on the web and that verifies > what I see. I ran 'netcheck' and it basically is a script that runs 'ping' > and 'traceroute', right? I have run those seperately, but with my limited > knowledge of what the output tells me, I can't make too much of them. Below > is the output of 'netcheck from blizzard, some packet loss (10%) showing > from the 'ping' program: > > [ldm@blizzard]#./netcheck > > netcheck Nov 5 22:31:36 UTC Version: > 1.02 > ============================================================================ > === > > Upstream Hosts: > > Nov 5 22:32:45 UTC: papagayo.unl.edu > ________________________ > > ping -s papagayo.unl.edu 64 10: > ----papagayo.unl.edu PING Statistics---- > 10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10% packet loss > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 93/107/126 > > traceroute papagayo.unl.edu: > traceroute to papagayo.unl.edu (129.93.52.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets > 1 starbase1.uninet.uni.edu (134.161.128.1) 0.490 ms 0.375 ms 0.344 ms > 2 uni-gate.uni.edu (134.161.1.101) 6.635 ms 3.587 ms 6.315 ms > 3 * * * > 4 * * * > 5 * sl-gw12-che-2-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.219.137) 28.155 ms 43.584 ms > 6 sl-bb21-che-3-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.15.173) 103.210 ms 209.354 ms > 36. > 413 ms > 7 sl-bb21-chi-11-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.6) 46.953 ms 45.280 ms > 158.21 > 8 ms > 8 sl-gw11-chi-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.110) 101.133 ms 51.904 ms > 60 > .833 ms > 9 sl-lincoln-2-0-0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.156.34) 129.709 ms 183.674 > ms > 149.325 ms > 10 162.40.115.10 (162.40.115.10) 100.042 ms 157.630 ms 120.488 ms > 11 205.240.124.78 (205.240.124.78) 102.999 ms 106.887 ms * > 12 * * * > 13 papagayo.unl.edu (129.93.52.150) 90.097 ms 103.028 ms 99.864 ms > > Downstream Hosts: > > [ldm@blizzard]# > > Hope this gives you a few clues. I have written my sys admin guy about > network issues, and have received no reply. They are obviously not nearly > as supportive as Unidata, as I can see! When you have time, let me know Hi Patrick, Maybe the end of your message got cut off there... Hops 8 - 11 in your traceroute that don't look that good. But, what I was proposing, which I didn't make clear, is that you run netcheck continually for a day or two. That is, make a cron job for it. Here's an example from my ldm's crontab (it is currently commented out): # run netcheck every 2 minutes #*/2 * * * * /usr/local/ldm/bin/netcheck Have netcheck log to a file, like ~ldm/logs/netcheck.log. Then we can get a view of the connectivity over time. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************