I was trying to do some remote blast. Here is my command:

blastn -query myquery.fasta -db nt -out myblast.out -remote -num_alignments 10 -outfmt "6 qacc saccver pident sscinames length mismatch gapopen evalue bitscore"

I wanted to get the scientific name instead of taxid so I requested sscinames in my output format. I am almost certain that this worked for me a few months ago (according to my work log). Today it stopped working, returning N/A for the sscinames column with warning,

Warning: [blastn] Taxonomy name lookup from taxid requires installation of taxdb database with ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/taxdb.tar.gz

for each query.

I would assume installing taxdb on my local computer wouldn't help.

I am using blast 2.6.0+

Any help is appreciated.