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Hi David, et. al., This is a quick update in advance of our conference call tomorrow at 13:00 MST: Steve Emmerson, Mike Schmidt and I took a close look at LDM log file entries on sirocco last Friday while after turning a feed REQUEST back on to one of the real server backends of the idd.unidata.ucar.edu cluster. We observed that ** something ** is inserting a reset message into the IDD stream to sirocco. The reset message is causing the downstream process on sirocco to believe that the connection has been closed, and sirocco responds by opening a new connection. The insertion of the reset message is reminiscent of COMCAST's interference with peer-to-peer service connections on its network. In order to more fully investigate the reset messages being added to the stream, we ran a series of tests using different ports for the connection -- the LDM uses the well-known port 388 by default, but it can be built to use any port that the user wants (but machines participating in the IDD all use port 388). The port being used on the upstream had no effect on the observation that reset messages are being inserted into the stream (we tried port 80, 8080, and 22). Our hypothesis at this point is that some entity "close" to LSU is purposely interfering with connections between LDMs inside of the LSU or LSU/SRCC network and outside of the LSU campus. 'traceroute's from machines external to LSU suggest that this may be loni.org or net.internet2.edu. My guess (not necessarily shared by others here in the UPC) is that the place to look is loni.org. 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: CSZ-262645 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed