Robert,
This just came through regarding the NCEP ftp situation.
Tom
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Tom McDermott Email: tmcderm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator Phone: (585) 395-5718
Earth Sciences Dept. Fax: (585) 395-2416
SUNY College at Brockport
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> From: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Correction: That's "asymmetric" not "symmetric".
Ricardo Romero wrote:
> Dear User Community,
>
> Changes were made at the NOAA Network Operations Center (NOC)
> this past Thursday, September 18. The changes were to the
> routing of connections to our www/ftp farm. These changes
> were made to alleviate the congestion we were experiencing
> due to the Hurricane Isabel traffic volume. The changes
> resulted in the creation of symmetric routes to some
> external client systems. The common symptom experienced by
> users is the ability to connect to our servers, but a
> connection timeout when a data transmission occurs back to
> the user's system.
>
> The NOAA NOC is currently working on correcting the routing
> problem.
>
> Thank you for your patience and understanding.
>
Please send any comments or questions concerning this
announcement to mailto:ncep.helpdesk@xxxxxxxx.
Thank You,
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
http://www.ncep.noaa.gov
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