I have been getting messages similar to these for 24 plus hours. I have to dial in so I can't stay hooked up waiting. How do I get WU?????


3/24/2005 6:43:10 AM||Insufficient work; requesting more
3/24/2005 6:43:10 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 172800.00 seconds of work
3/24/2005 6:43:10 AM|SETI@home|Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
3/24/2005 6:43:13 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
3/24/2005 6:43:13 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: Not sending work - last RPC too recent: 492 sec

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Hello and welcome,

You arrived at a not that fine time, especially for new dial-uppers.
I can't help you with the problem atm, but I'll try to explain:

Due to some major outage (caused by the ISP, not by Seti-team), there is now a major congestion on the data highway @Berkeley.

The last message says, that you contacted too soon before. This is a precaution to prevent DoS attacs, you have to wait some time between two contacts, I think it was something like 10min. That's not so fine for dial-up in times of congestion, but otherwise it's a good security item.

BTW:
The (very good) manual for Boinc is the BOINC Powered Projects Documentation by Paul D. Buck and the FAQ therein.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

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