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>From: Teresa Van Hove <address@hidden>
>Organization: GST
>Keywords: 200301242301.h0ON1X622460

Teresa, John, and Maggie,

I will try and jump in and fill in for Jeff (whose wife just had a baby).
Please forgive me if I am not fully up to speed on your situation, or
if I rehash issues that Jeff has already covered.

>We are working with the UNIDATA support staff, since only LDM seems to be
>failing.  I have not heard from them yet on whether it looks like your
>network is not allowing our port 388 requests for LDM; or not forwarding
>those requests to suominet.msu.edu's "private IP #" from the public IP
>of 198.215.11.31  

>Or whether we may need to redo the LDM set-up to make sure the  port mapping
>is correct.  I  think the LDM port mapping on the suominet.msu.edu cpu is ok
>since I can run an ldmping from suominet.msu.edu to our local LDM box, but
>cant successfully ldmping suominet.msu.edu from here ..., but I'm not expert
>enough on LDM to know.   

We are able duplicate Teresa's ldmping results to suomildm2.cosmic.ucar.edu
and suominet.msu.edu from a machine here at the UPC:

% ldmping 128.117.29.217
Jan 25 23:05:22      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
Jan 25 23:05:22 RESPONDING   0.002166  388   128.117.29.217

% ldmping 198.215.11.31
Jan 25 23:05:44      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
Jan 25 23:05:54 SVC_UNAVAIL   9.999540    0   198.215.11.31  
h_clnt_create(198.215.11.31): Timed out while creating connection
Jan 25 23:06:19  ADDRESSED   0.000007    0   198.215.11.31  
h_clnt_create(198.215.11.31): Timed out while creating connection

% ldmping suominet.msu.edu
Jan 25 23:16:03      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
Jan 25 23:16:03      NAMED   0.007929    0   suominet.msu.edu  
gethostbyname(suominet.msu.edu): lookup failed

The inability to contact the LDM presumably running at 198.215.11.31
is likely caused by port 388 not being accessible to both the machine I used
for the test (shemp.unidata.ucar.edu/128.117.140.27) and the one that
Teresa used for the test (suomildm2.cosmic.ucar.edu/128.117.29.217).

The failure for suominet.msu.edu appears to be related to not being able
to do a reverse name lookup for suominet.msu.edu:

% nslookup suominet.msu.edu
Server:  laraine.unidata.ucar.edu
Address:  128.117.140.62

*** laraine.unidata.ucar.edu can't find suominet.msu.edu: Non-existent 
host/domain

Assuming that there the 'ldmping 198.215.11.31' failure is related to a
firewall not allowing direct access to port 388, I would say that this
is where to start looking for a problem.

As to the forward/reverse name lookup failure for suominet.msu.edu, this
is a DNS issue that can be hacked around by adding appropriate entries
in ones /etc/hosts file (done by 'root', and assuming that /etc/hosts
entries will be used when resolving host names).

Given that I am coming in on this late in the game, please let me know
what I am missing about your setup.  Thanks...

> I'm copying the results of the ldmpings here:
> >>>>>>>>FROM suominet.msu.edu to suomildm2.cosmic.ucar.edu>>>>>>>
>[ldm@suominet ~]$ ldmping 128.117.29.217
>Jan 24 22:54:09      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
>Jan 24 22:54:09 RESPONDING   0.557852  388   128.117.29.217  
>Jan 24 22:54:35 RESPONDING   0.121132  388   128.117.29.217  
>Jan 24 22:55:00 RESPONDING   0.081933  388   128.117.29.217  
>
>>>>>>>>>From suomildm2.cosmic.ucar.edu to 198.215.11.31 and to suominet.msu.ed
> u
>
>[ldm@suomildm2 ldm]$ ldmping 198.215.11.31
>Jan 24 22:55:12      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
>Jan 24 22:55:22 SVC_UNAVAIL   9.998626    0   198.215.11.31  h_clnt_create(198
> .215.11.31): Timed out while creating
>connection
 ...

>[ldm@suomildm2 ldm]$ ldmping suominet.msu.edu
>Jan 24 22:59:01      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
>Jan 24 22:59:01      NAMED   0.045296    0   suominet.msu.edu  gethostbyname(s
> uominet.msu.edu): lookup failed
>Jan 24 22:59:26      NAMED   0.002321    0   suominet.msu.edu  gethostbyname(s
> uominet.msu.edu): lookup failed
>
>
>> 
>> Hello Teresa.....
>> After logging on to suominet yesterday......I received the following.  Perha
> ps
>> it will help with the system.
>>  
>> 'You have new mail.'
>> '[root@suominet/root]# set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 1 to 59'
>>  
>> Naturally, the message means nothing to me, but may be significant to you.
>> Let me know what you want me to do next.
>> John.....
>> 
>> Dr. M. John Kocurko
>> Chairman, Geology
>> Midwestern State University
>> 3410 Taft Blvd.
>> Wichita Falls, Texas 76308
>> 940-397-4181
>> Fax 940-397-4893 
>
>-- 
>Teresa Van Hove
>Associate Scientist GST/UCAR
>address@hidden
>---------------------------------

Tom Yoksas

>From address@hidden Tue Jan 28 08:39:30 2003
>To: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>CC: Teresa Van Hove <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>   address@hidden, address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 20030124:   SA19 -LDM timing out. - No met data

Hello,

We are reciving data again from SA19.

Thank you all for your help getting this site up again.


Dear John and Clark,

We are reporting that there is no met data in SA19.
We show that you have a MET PACK/Paroscientific 3.
Please let me know if you would need help getting the met data flowing 
again. If so I will give you the contact of a Paroscientific 
representative that has been very helpful in helping some of our 
Suominet universities that were having any difficulties with their MET 
stations

Again, thank you very much for your help.
Best Regards,
Maggie

-- 
Maggie Sleziak
Programmer Tech
GST Cosmic UCAR/NCAR
address@hidden