This looks like the remote server failed. It is probably temporary, so you might just try running again. I am baffled that you saw this error with --disable-remote-tests because tst_varm3 is not supposed to be run if remote tests are disables. =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: LLJ-764676 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Critical Status: Closed