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Janet, I've discovered a system-call that might clear any cacheing of IP addresses by the operating system and added a call to it to the downstream LDM code. The resulting distribution is experimental -- but I suggest you try it to solve your problem. If it doesn't solve your problem, then there's nothing more that the LDM can do. The URL for the release is ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/ldm/ldm-6.4.5.0.tar.Z Please let us know what you discover. Regards, Steve Emmerson LDM Developer ------- Original Message Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:50:21 -0700 From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>To: semmerson@unidata.u car.edu Subject: 20060113: Sending data through LDM to ground from aircraft with changi ng ip address (cont.) ------- Forwarded Message >To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >From: Janet Scannell <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20060106: Sending data through LDM to ground from aircraft with c hanging ip address >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200601132309.k0DN9O7s021011 We have an ISP for our satellite connection that gives us the same name each time we connect, but not the same ip address. (i.e. 600644362.tssmob.net is the name and 12.42.105.* for the ip address, the last number varies for each connection). After the satellite connection is made, it takes about 5 minutes for the name, 600644362.tssmob.net, to resolve to the correct address from the plane. Once the name is resolved properly, then we start up the processing that sends the ldm data to the ground. The name is what is specified in the conf file on the ground (request EXP "nimbus_sql.*\.gz" 600644362.tssmob.net). The ldm on the ground has to be restarted each time a new connection is made from the plane before the data will get to the ground ldm. This seems to be a problem with the ldm connection and not a problem with the dns name resolution. The problem that I see on the ground is that the data is not being received by the ground ldm. When I restart the ldm, the data immediately starts flowing to the ground ldm. I'm trying to find out the range of available IP addresses that we could be assigned. The ip address can change any time we reinitiate the connection with the ISP. Janet -- 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. ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Original Message