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Message 769155 - Posted: 16 Jun 2008, 17:26:54 UTC

I am using FC9, and I have followed the instruction from Official BOINC WIKI. And read many articles and ask many people on IRCs, I still couldn't find the answers of that: 'Couldn't resolve host name'. I would like to know the solution, here is the error message:

Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:06 PM HKT||Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:06 PM HKT|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:09 PM HKT||Account manager error: can't resolve hostname
Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:09 PM HKT||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:10 PM HKT||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.
Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:05:12 PM HKT|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
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Message 769190 - Posted: 16 Jun 2008, 19:01:11 UTC

Looks like something with the setup of the nameresolution on your system is not correctly.
What does a "nslookup setiathome.berkeley.edu" say.
Do you use a proxy server to connect to the internet ?
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Message 769507 - Posted: 17 Jun 2008, 14:27:19 UTC
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I get following message:

[chanueting@localhost ~]$ nslookup setiathome.berkeley.edu
Server: 203.168.223.202
Address: 203.168.223.202#53

Non-authoritative answer:
setiathome.berkeley.edu canonical name = setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu.
Name: setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu
Address: 128.32.18.150

And I don't use any proxy, sounds strange.

Besides these, it is likely that I wrongly made the boinc client run on root. And there may be the problem. However, either do my account and root can show the above nslookup result.
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Message 770830 - Posted: 20 Jun 2008, 14:43:24 UTC
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I don't know what was happening, after I have built a cc_config.xml includes:


<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<http_debug>1</http_debug>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>

BOINC client suddenly worked again. I don't know if the http_debug solve the problem, but it may help the others who can do nothing besides waiting for DNS recovery.

You may also have a look for http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
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