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>From: "Roger Sweetman" <address@hidden> >Organization: TGA >Keywords: 200307231417.h6NEHnLd006173 netCDF download Roger, >I am trying to download the NetCDF tar from >http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/, but Internet Explorer >keeps returning that the file can't be found. I have tried using a >number of FTP tools but to no avail. I just logged onto a remote site and successfully FTPed the netCDF source distribution, so I am confident that there is nothing systematically wrong with our site. For reference, here is what I did: - make sure that the directory to which I want to FTP the distribution is writable by me - ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu <user> anonymous <pass> my_full_email_address cd pub/netcdf binary get netcdf.tar.Z quit Since the above worked correctly on a non-Unidata machine (at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln), I have to assume that the problem is somehow on your end. Our FTP service will be denied to machines where a forward and reverse name lookup can not be done. Could this be your problem? Have you tried the FTP from a different machinea at your site? >Are there any other sites - other than the mirrors provided that I can >download the compressed tar file. The mirrors provided are the non-Unidata sites that provide the distribution. >We tried the script install but our server will not recognise domain >names only the windows browser. Eventually we want to install the >package on Cygwin) This sounds like the possibility I alluded to above may be in play. What is the machine name/IP address for the machine you are trying the Web and FTP download from? >Many thanks in advance, >Roger Sweetman >TGA >Marine Section Tom Yoksas >From address@hidden Wed Jul 23 10:26:47 2003 Thanks for your speedy response! I am pretty confident that the fault is at our end. We have been migrated to a W2K network. Aparently in the architecture there is a route server which causes the problem with FTP from dos - or cygwin. My IP address is 10.160.10.80 However I have no idea if the external and internal IP are the same. The migration has just finished and a lot of details have not been communicated to us yet. I have suceeded in downloading an older version from else where and have started to adapt the script to use this local version. I am getting a lot of errors but I can probably resolve them my self. Thanks again for your help. Roger.