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>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden> >Organization: CU/CIRES NOAA/ESRL >Keywords: 200512091601.jB9G1w7s009532 McIDAS Solaris 10 Hi Hsie, re: ADDE remote server access to from Unidata to hail takes a long time >The new machine is in a Gigabits network. UCAR also uses a Gbps network, and we are both on BRAN. >It supposes to be faster. What do you mean "LONG" time? For instance, the 'DSINFO IMAGE RTIMAGES' took about 30 seconds. The 'IMGLIST RTIMAGES/GW-IR.ALL' also took about 30 seconds. Routinely seeing the same amount of time for DSINFO and IMGLIST suggests that there is some sort of a timeout occuring before the connection succeeds. The reason I say this is that DSINFO only reads ~mcidas/workdata/RESOLV.SRV entries on the server while IMGLIST reads the headers for all of the images in the dataset. As a comparison, the same DSINFO to the NIU ADDE server, weather3.admin.niu.edu, takes a very small fraction of a second, and an IMGLIST takes about 1.5 seconds. We have seen situations were there were persistent 30 second delays for contact of ADDE servers. The situation that I am most familiar with was caused by RFC 931 authorization. Here is a snippit from the man page for tcpd on our Fedora Core Linux machine: RFC 931 When RFC 931 etc. lookups are enabled (compile-time option) tcpd will attempt to establish the name of the client user. This will succeed only if the client host runs an RFC 931-compliant daemon. Client user name lookups will not work for datagram-oriented connections, and may cause noticeable delays in the case of connections from PCs. Typically user machines have port 113 access blocked, so the authentication will wait for a timeout period (30 seconds) before proceeding. I tried to verify that this is what is going on wrt hail, but I am currently unable to contact hail at all (either via ADDE from my machine, or using ping from cirrus.al.noaa.gov). So, the question is how to turn off TCP wrapping of the ADDE requests. Cheers, Tom -- 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.