Yes, I know about the current issues re the upload server, and the fact it's maint day, but the pop-up from Boinc Manager, telling me it can't access the internet is totally bugging me, as whan I check, internet access is fine, thank you very much ;-)

So, my query is, HOW does BM determine internet access isn't there?

P.

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This sounds like a misleading message - could you say which version of BOINC you're using, and the exact wording you're receiving? If you could correlate the message pop-up with whatever BOINC is trying to do at the time - from the Event Log - that would be helpful.

To answer your specific question: if BOINC fails to get a response from the expected project web address, it tries a test connection to a high-availability public website. By default, it tests "A Well-Known Search Engine", aka google.com

If there's no reply from Google, then it assumes the whole internet is unavailable from your location.

This sounds like a misleading message - could you say which version of BOINC you're using, and the exact wording you're receiving? If you could correlate the message pop-up with whatever BOINC is trying to do at the time - from the Event Log - that would be helpful.

To answer your specific question: if BOINC fails to get a response from the expected project web address, it tries a test connection to a high-availability public website. By default, it tests "A Well-Known Search Engine", aka google.com

If there's no reply from Google, then it assumes the whole internet is unavailable from your location.

|The full messaqe, as per the event log is, and I quote,

"Boinc can't access the Internet - cdheck network connection or proxy configuration" Using 7.2.42. Internet access is always fine, as soon as I see the popup, I fire up Firefox and it loads Google as my default home page.
Usually BM is trying to upload/report when it happens. If I tell BM to upload the current crop of waiting WU's, even knowing the upload server is "down", BM will eventually report no internet access.

It's no big deal, I was just wondering how it determined wether access was available. I do use UK Google, so maybe google.com is unavailable, though I have tried it and it seems ok ;-)

P.

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If your taking about tray pop up...
Advance view -> Tools -> Options -> General Tab -> Notice reminder interval -> select how often you want notice

I set mine to once a day so I don't miss project notices.

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If your taking about tray pop up...
Advance view -> Tools -> Options -> General Tab -> Notice reminder interval -> select how often you want notice

I set mine to once a day so I don't miss project notices.

Mine is already at 6hrs, but the popup occurs as the problem occurs ;-)

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I've just looked at one of mine, and I'm getting

04/11/2014 14:07:52 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
04/11/2014 14:07:54 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

- which would be more normal. I think you should only get the balloon pop-up if the second of those two tests fails.

If you consistently get a false internet connection report, there are a couple of settings you could try.

<network_test_url>URL</network_test_url>
The URL to use when checking network connectivity; default is http://www.google.com/.

You could try putting http://www.google.co.uk in there, if you don't want to be bothered by transatlantic link failures. Or

<dont_contact_ref_site>0|1</dont_contact_ref_site>
To determine if a physical network connection exists, the client occasionally contacts a highly-available web site (google.com). If this flag is set, this behavior is suppressed.

I've just looked at one of mine, and I'm getting

04/11/2014 14:07:52 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
04/11/2014 14:07:54 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

- which would be more normal. I think you should only get the balloon pop-up if the second of those two tests fails.

If you consistently get a false internet connection report, there are a couple of settings you could try.

<network_test_url>URL</network_test_url>
The URL to use when checking network connectivity; default is http://www.google.com/.

You could try putting http://www.google.co.uk in there, if you don't want to be bothered by transatlantic link failures. Or

<dont_contact_ref_site>0|1</dont_contact_ref_site>
To determine if a physical network connection exists, the client occasionally contacts a highly-available web site (google.com). If this flag is set, this behavior is suppressed.

Thanks Richard, I'll try one of those switches later.

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Thank goodness for that. I've been getting that quite regularly since late June. The last was at 16:32:34 yesterday.

Thought that it was a problem on my rig so did a repair with no joy. Run out cache & uninstalled boinc, cleaned up system & reinstalled. Still getting that notice.

I'm using 7.2.42.

Thank goodness for that. I've been getting that quite regularly since late June. The last was at 16:32:34 yesterday.

Thought that it was a problem on my rig so did a repair with no joy. Run out cache & uninstalled boinc, cleaned up system & reinstalled. Still getting that notice.

I'm using 7.2.42.

Im getting that same message on all 3 of my computers also. Im running 7.2.42. I figure If I can pull up the server page and or the message boards and connect to a local news feed, To me it just means a server at Seti is borked. But yes those messages do tend to strike fear im my heart:)

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