For some reason Boinc says it cant access the internet this error has only started today, there is nothing wrong with my connection

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For some reason Boinc says it cant access the internet this error has only started today, there is nothing wrong with my connection

could you post the relevant messages from the messages tab?

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BOINC WIKI

22/05/2010 17:10:56 BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.

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What did you do between the last successful connect and now?

Windows update (I have to guess here, since your computers are hidden)?
New/updated Firewall/AV?
Proxy?
...

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

I have the same issue on my MAC but have not problem accessing internet.

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Really the same (BOINC can't access Internet) or only with upload (Temporarily failed upload of...: system connect)?

If really the same, what about my questions (add BOINC version)?

Gruß,
Gundolf

We need more information than 'Boinc won't access the Internet'. For that we need to see about 10 line of the message log before and after the error message.

We know that the Seti upload servers are not working at the moment because everyone is having that problem. After three failed attempt to upload work to a project, Boinc will go into a project specific increasing back-off of the attempts to upload to prevent bandwidth overload. This will also temporarily stop downloads of new work from the effected project so has not to make the upload problems worse and make it easier for everyone to send the work when the project problem has been fixed.

Edit: I happen to have two projects (Seti and Spinhenge) with work ready to upload that are having problems this weekend.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

What did you do between the last successful connect and now?

Windows update (I have to guess here, since your computers are hidden)?
New/updated Firewall/AV?
Proxy?
...

Gruß,
Gundolf

I have changed nothing. Also im not getting this error anymore just these

23/05/2010 16:49:54 SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 01mr07ai.13794.24203.16.10.56_0_0: connect() failed
23/05/2010 16:49:54 SETI@home Backing off 4 min 24 sec on upload of 01mr07ai.13794.24203.16.10.56_0_0
23/05/2010 16:49:55 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

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23/05/2010 16:49:55 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

That's correct. The upload server is down. It has been since Friday.

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Do you happen to use ESET NOD32 Smart Security?

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Hi,
misschien lees je het nog. Toevallig had ik hetzelfde probleem. Na lang zoeken kwam ik er achter dat NOD32 op een of andere manier Boinc in de actieve modes heeft gezet. Dan gaat het dus niet goed. Deselecteer het vinkje voor Boinc in Beveiliging webtoegang\http,https\active modus en alles werkt weer.
Succes

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when will Boinc be back up? It hasn't worked in weeks.
all it show is "Connecting to Localhost"
uninstalled Boinc, it wouldn't even open up "Attach to project or account manager..."

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Living the past, stuck in the present, dreaming the future

this must be a Windows 7 Update with BOINC, it was working fine then just quit
I finished doing a dual boot with Vista, installed Boinc and it started off like it should

only problem now is I don't want to be stuck in Vista just so BOINC will run

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Living the past, stuck in the present, dreaming the future

Rick you may want to monitor the new drivers you have installed. I dont know if anything beyond the 197.XX drivers work on the CUDA tasks with or without the Lunatics apps

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

yea, the new driver fix some problems and seem to create a few more,
getting on here now to post this NewS FlasH !!!
I just installed the Windows 7 SP1 BETA, after my system rebooted from installing it, BOINC was up and running like nothing was ever wrong

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Living the past, stuck in the present, dreaming the future

I just installed Boinc and accessed seti@home for the first ime in several years, since I have a much faster computer now and some idle cpu.

However, I keep getting the error message "project servers may be temporarily down" and "couldn't access servers". I don't know what's going on here.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on an Intel Quad-Core Q8300 with 4 GB RAM and a GeForce 9800GT 512 MB video card, XP Firewall and Avira AV.

The last portion of my message log follows:

8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Running under account Administrator
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Processor: 2.00 MB cache
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 5.09 GB virtual
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Disk: 99.53 GB total, 73.62 GB free
8/12/2010 2:29:22 PM||Local time is UTC -6 hours
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9800 GT (driver version 19675, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 308 GFLOPS peak)
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||Preferences:
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| max memory usage when active: 1663.52MB
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| max memory usage when idle: 2994.34MB
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| max disk usage: 10.00GB
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| don't use GPU while active
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM|| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||Not using a proxy
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects
8/12/2010 2:29:23 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
8/12/2010 2:29:58 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
8/12/2010 2:35:21 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
8/12/2010 2:38:30 PM||Running CPU benchmarks
8/12/2010 2:38:30 PM||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
8/12/2010 2:39:01 PM||Benchmark results:
8/12/2010 2:39:01 PM|| Number of CPUs: 4
8/12/2010 2:39:01 PM|| 2647 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
8/12/2010 2:39:01 PM|| 5515 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
8/12/2010 2:39:02 PM||Resuming computation
8/12/2010 2:39:04 PM|SETI@home|Master file download succeeded
8/12/2010 2:39:09 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:39:09 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:39:11 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:39:11 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:39:12 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/12/2010 2:40:11 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:40:11 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:40:13 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:40:13 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:40:14 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/12/2010 2:41:13 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:41:13 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:41:15 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:41:15 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:41:16 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/12/2010 2:42:15 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:42:15 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:42:17 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:42:17 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:42:18 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/12/2010 2:43:17 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:43:17 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:43:19 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:43:19 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:43:20 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/12/2010 2:45:04 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/12/2010 2:45:04 PM|SETI@home|Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/12/2010 2:45:06 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/12/2010 2:45:06 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
8/12/2010 2:45:07 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

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same problem for me..... servers down ??
on the server status pages the Seti servers have a "working" status

running win7 64bit
(first installation in years)

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Cheers and happy crunching

However, I keep getting the error message "project servers may be temporarily down" and "couldn't access servers". I don't know what's going on here.

Read the news on the front page:

Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up
Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we begin a 3 day data distribution outage to focus on science processing and development plus any needed systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. The web site (including the forums) will only be offline during the database maintenance and backup portion of the outage. On Friday, you may experience connectivity issues as the servers catch up with demand

So you won't be able to get work until (late) Friday or (early) Saturday.

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thx 4 reply

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Cheers and happy crunching

Thank You Very Much! for the Info on this, I was wondering the same, having the same issues.

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