Re: 959511: mirror site for netCDF?

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>Keywords: 199505111444.AA18905 netCDF mirror site

Hi Jens,

> Is there a mirror for the actual netcdf stuff, maybe in europe? The
> connection to your ftp-site is extremly slow and I haven't been able
> to get ncbrowse.pro (~70kB), not to mention the library. I've tried
> a -c5093@ this morning without success.

No sorry, I don't know of any mirror site.  Yours is the first report I have
seen of a slow FTP connection to our site.  We have a high-bandwidth
connection to the Internet.  I suspect you are seeing symptoms of a
temporary problem and that you will have better luck trying it at some other
time.

I just tried to ping to another host in Deutschland with a netCDF user on
our mailing list and it indicates fairly high packet loss:

  % ping -s kirk.es.go.dlr.de
  PING kirk.es.go.dlr.de: 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=1. time=1558. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=2. time=1153. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=5. time=1042. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=8. time=753. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=9. time=1013. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=11. time=736. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=26. time=2309. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=29. time=2003. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=31. time=1902. ms
  64 bytes from kirk.es.go.dlr.de (129.247.79.2): icmp_seq=32. time=2913. ms

  ----kirk.es.go.dlr.de PING Statistics----
  36 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 72% packet loss
  round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 736/1538/2913

A "traceroute" shows me the problem is not local, but a problem in routing
packets somewhere "out there", perhaps the routing hop in the Atlantic link.

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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