I was reading this thread
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13867#101160
and everyone there is talking about setiboincdata.ssl.berkley.edu

however, my boinc client is trying to contact
setiboincdat!.ssl.berkley.edu
and it "can't resolve host name" (duh)
(trying to download a new work unit)

is this the wrong server, or is it actually trying to connect to the correct server?
btw, I live in Tennessee, and I have had LOTS of connectivity problems since 17 Apr. it works from time to tome, but mostly it can't find ther servers....
HELP!

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Hello and welcome Eric,

all the info you need is in the email you recieved with your account ID and the URL.

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

A quick installation guide in this is here and for windows go here, for –ux go here afterwards.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

Yes, I would say the exclamation point should not be in the URL that you are currently trying to connect to.

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This is the url you get in the email Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu and you must spell the words correctly, Berkeley has three e's.....

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Semper Eadem
So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride.

Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No.

The URL setiboincdat!.ssl.berkley.edu is wrong, no question. This sign is not allowed in a domain name (related to RFC 952 and 1123).

The sequenz of BOINC calling the servers at this moment looks like:

1.
Call Projekt or Master URL which is at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu and read Scheduler URL from a hidden HTML tag in this web page.

2.
Call the scheduler server URL which is at http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi or http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi and get names and URLs of WUs to crunch.

3.
Download the Wus from the data server which is at http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/ or http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu i.e. giving a URL like this
http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/2fe/26ja05aa.24515.12576.147152.167.

4.
Upload the results to the data server which is at http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ too, but uses a CGI program giving a URL like this: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/file_upload_handler

5.
Report the upload to the scheduler which is again at the URL http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi or http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

This is how it looks at the moment. This will change when SETI@home Classic is closed andd the BOINC web site is moved to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu. This will reduce the possible URLs. ;)

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Greetings from Bremen/Germany
Jens Seidler (TheBigJens)