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Dave, Can you give me some idea of the rate at which data-products appear on the COSMIC feed? > Unidata LDM supporters, > > In an email message included below (last one), I reported to Karl > Hudnut (manager of UCAR's COSMIC data distribution server) an LDM > error message that indicates that either my LDM server > (virga.sfsu.edu) or Karl's LDM server (cosmic-io.cosmic.ucar.edu) > isn't allowing access to port 388 or isn't running its portmapper--I'm > not certain which. > > However, the following process is running on virga: > > daemon 67 1 67 12c49ad0 0 Ss ?? 0:00.01 12:41PM / > usr/sbin/portmap > > and the following entry (including tabs instead of spaces, if that > matters) is in virga's /etc/services file: > > ldm 388/tcp ldmd # UCAR Unidata LDM > > > Virga is getting data from other LDM servers as usual; we got data > successfully from cosmic-io for a couple of weeks in April (through > April 16); and I don't think virga's LDM configuration has changed > since then, so I'm guessing that the problem lies at Karl's end. If > not, can you suggest what else I might look for on virga to account > for the error (and failure to get COSMIC data since April 16, with the > message below repeated endlessly)? > > Thanks for the attention! > > -- Dave > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Karl Hudnut <address@hidden> > > Date: May 13, 2008 8:09:17 AM PDT > > To: Dempsey <address@hidden> > > Subject: Re: LDM Data Feed from CDAAC > > > > Hi Dave, > > > > I'm trying to figure out what is wrong. I can see, even from our > > machines, > > that something is wrong. It was working so well I stopped routinely > > monitoring it and I apologize for 4 weeks of outage. > > > > -- > > Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC > > address@hidden http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu 303 497 8024 > > > > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Dempsey wrote: > > > >> > >> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Karl Hudnut wrote: > >> > >>> We have recently added the capability for you to receive our > >>> wetPrf and > >>> bfrPrf files using LDM. You indicated that you were interested. > >> > >> Karl, > >> > >> For quite some time now (four weeks?) our LDM has been issuing the > >> following > >> error messages when it tries to connect the COSMIC LDM server: > >> > >> Mon May 12 20:01:25 virga cosmic-io.cosmic.ucar.edu[18199] <Error>: > >> Disconnecting due to LDM failure; Couldn't connect to LDM on > >> cosmic-io.cosmic.ucar.edu using either port 388 or portmapper; : > >> RPC: Remote > >> system error - Connection refused\n > >> > >> > >> Things worked fine for the several weeks leading up to about April > >> 16, when > >> the messages like the one above started appearing consistently. Can > >> you > >> comment on what the problem might be? > >> > >> -- Dave > >> > >> **************************************************************** > >> * | __ __ \|/ * > >> * Dr. Dave Dempsey | ) ^ /|| ||\ --0-- * > >> * Dept. of Geosciences |) ) ^ / ||_|| \ /|\ * > >> * San Francisco State University | ) ) / | _ | \ * > >> * 1600 Holloway Ave. |) )/ || || \ * > >> * San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) ||_|| \ * > >> * |) ) ) | _ | \ * > >> * Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) || || \ * > >> * FAX: (415) 338-7705 |) ) )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* > >> * Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * > >> * |) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ * > >> **************************************************************** > >> > >> > > > > ************************************************************ > * Dr. Dave Dempsey | ^ ___ > \|/ * > * Dept. of Geosciences | ) ^ /||_||\ > --0-- * > * San Francisco State University | ) ) / ||_|| \ /|\ * > * 1600 Holloway Ave. | ) ) / ||_|| > \ * > * San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) / ||_|| \ ^ * > * > | ) ) ) ||_|| \ * > * Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) )~||~||~~~~ \~~* > * FAX: (415) 338-7705 | ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~* > * Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * > ************************************************************ Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RFJ-134602 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: On Hold