20030723: Downloading NetCDF Tar file

>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.