Random Chaos
(Weather Analyst)
Wed Sep 01 2010 02:44 AM
Re: Satellite Sevices Division

Did a little investigation on SSD failures - looks like there is a routing and/or DNS issue.

Route one: Maryland via Qwest to the NOAA server banks in Silver Spring, MD. Loads the bad 1996 server software.

Route two: Maryland via Level 3 to Texas and then into a server farm in Texas. Loads the correct 2009 server software.

My guess is someone turned on some old servers that are supposed to be long shut down and one of them is sending out some bad routing data.

I emailed SSD's webmaster email address to let them know my info - hopefully they can fix it pretty quickly tomorrow, but doubt anything will happen until then.


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