Hi,
After years I ran Seti@Home on my CPU I wanted to switch to BOINC. I downloaded it, installed it and entered the code I received via email. But it doesn't succeed to download work jobs at all. It keeps on trying to connect, but doesn't succeed. the message reads as follows:
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM||Starting BOINC client version 4.25 for windows_intelx86
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Using your default project prefs
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Host ID not assigned yet
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 6 seconds
4/2/2005 1:26:33 AM||Insufficient work; requesting more
4/2/2005 1:26:33 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640.00 seconds of work
4/2/2005 1:26:33 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
4/2/2005 1:26:34 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
4/2/2005 1:26:34 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
4/2/2005 1:26:34 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Deferring communication with project for 16 minutes and 6 seconds

I'm not sure if its related, but on the bottom right I get the following message: Connected to localhost (0.00)
I would apretiate if someone could help me with this.
Thanks
Jonathan

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I forgot mentioning that I have a LAN at home. I have a NAT\Router\Gateway which receives an IP from my ISP, and on the LAN both it and my computer have static IP addresses. I suspect this might be the problem, is there any way to solve this?
Jonathan

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Always look on the home page of the site for news. Most often connection problems such you are experiencing currently are listed there:

News
April 1, 2005
We have released version 4.10 of the setiathome application for windows. This release contains a bug fix that should resolve around a third of the instances of graphics not displaying. Because all clients will be downloading the new application, data service will be slow for a while.

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

> I forgot mentioning that I have a LAN at home. I have a NATRouterGateway which
> receives an IP from my ISP, and on the LAN both it and my computer have static
> IP addresses. I suspect this might be the problem, is there any way to solve
> this?
> Jonathan
>

that's not the problem, though you may have to forward a port (though I don't remember which).

You may also need to check and make sure your firewall will let the connection through.

Most of all, it'll just probably be a little bit before you can connect to the scheduler, because of the updated client being distributed.

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>After years I ran Seti@Home on my CPU I wanted to switch to BOINC. I downloaded >it, installed it and entered the code I received via email

Ther where 2 things from the email that you needed to enter. one was the URL . it seems that you got that right .
BUT:
4/2/2005 1:25:25 AM|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Host ID not assigned yet

did you enter(copy/Paste recommended) the account ID assigned to you?
it will look something like this: 7fcc15cc0a43f3bxxxxxxec3bb71xxxx

The port should be port 80. same as HTTP.(web surfing)
you also haven't told us much of the version of Boinc the OS etc but here is a page to read on Boinc Help.

[url=http://boinc-doc.net/index.php]Paul's Boinc Doc Site<a>
Let us know if it works for you. If not let's us know. I'll try to help

Thanks people. It simply started working, so I guess it was the slow service you were talking about due to the new version being distributed.
However, I think it would be best if the BOINC site would have some explanations about the ports BOINC uses and what should be forwarded (UDP/TCP etc...)

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There should be no need for port forwarding with BOINC. Boinc never sends you anything, "you" allways do the asking. Outgoing traffic is rarely blocked in NAT'ing routers, and I think BOINC uses port 80 (regular web traffic) for comms because it's evel less likely to get blocked...

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