Why can't i upload/download from SETI?

Questions and Answers : Windows : Why can't i upload/download from SETI?
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

Previous · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4

AuthorMessage
Profile S@NL - BuddyWolly
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 31 May 99
Posts: 19
Credit: 8,523,679
RAC: 1
Netherlands
Message 530430 - Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 18:24:05 UTC - in response to Message 530176.  

<...>
This again sounds like a packet size issue.

Have you tried the ping with the various sizes?


Up to packet size 1440 included, everything works fine respons times up to 175ms.
At size 1472 and higer it times out.
ID: 530430 · Report as offensive
Profile Dr. C.E.T.I.
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 29 Feb 00
Posts: 16019
Credit: 794,685
RAC: 0
United States
Message 530458 - Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 20:22:23 UTC


worked fine again -

. . . just finished another - see here -

Results for nobody

489398635 117175696 4 Mar 2007 14:40:25 UTC 12 Mar 2007 17:27:12 UTC Over Success Done 15,851.53 32.25 32.25

ID: 530458 · Report as offensive
John McLeod VII
Volunteer developer
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 15 Jul 99
Posts: 24806
Credit: 790,712
RAC: 0
United States
Message 530694 - Posted: 13 Mar 2007, 4:04:29 UTC - in response to Message 530430.  

<...>
This again sounds like a packet size issue.

Have you tried the ping with the various sizes?


Up to packet size 1440 included, everything works fine respons times up to 175ms.
At size 1472 and higer it times out.

OK, try setting the MTU value on your router to 1440 to see what happens.


BOINC WIKI
ID: 530694 · Report as offensive
Profile S@NL - BuddyWolly
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 31 May 99
Posts: 19
Credit: 8,523,679
RAC: 1
Netherlands
Message 532660 - Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 13:00:55 UTC - in response to Message 530694.  
Last modified: 17 Mar 2007, 13:01:50 UTC

<...>
This again sounds like a packet size issue.

Have you tried the ping with the various sizes?


Up to packet size 1440 included, everything works fine respons times up to 175ms.
At size 1472 and higer it times out.

OK, try setting the MTU value on your router to 1440 to see what happens.

Well i have been through almost all MTU and RWIN settings but still no luck.
However i realised that, after i upgraded boinc on this PC from 5.4.11 to 5.8.8, i had not seen it download a new WU yet. It did finish, upload and report the ones present.
So i have just removed boinc 5.8 and re-installed version 5.4.11 and lo and behold 2 WUs downloaded without any problems and it's happily crunching them...

So something must have changed in the download routines between 5.4 and 5.8 wich my win98 environmentcan not cope with. Any ideas??
ID: 532660 · Report as offensive
John McLeod VII
Volunteer developer
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 15 Jul 99
Posts: 24806
Credit: 790,712
RAC: 0
United States
Message 532734 - Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 16:41:40 UTC - in response to Message 532660.  

<...>
This again sounds like a packet size issue.

Have you tried the ping with the various sizes?


Up to packet size 1440 included, everything works fine respons times up to 175ms.
At size 1472 and higer it times out.

OK, try setting the MTU value on your router to 1440 to see what happens.

Well i have been through almost all MTU and RWIN settings but still no luck.
However i realised that, after i upgraded boinc on this PC from 5.4.11 to 5.8.8, i had not seen it download a new WU yet. It did finish, upload and report the ones present.
So i have just removed boinc 5.8 and re-installed version 5.4.11 and lo and behold 2 WUs downloaded without any problems and it's happily crunching them...

So something must have changed in the download routines between 5.4 and 5.8 wich my win98 environmentcan not cope with. Any ideas??

Actually, it is more likely that you have a large cache, and 5.8.11 is correctly determining that you are going to have trouble meeting deadlines before your next promissed connection. (only one setting available, and it is used to describe how long the network will be off between user initiated connections.)


BOINC WIKI
ID: 532734 · Report as offensive
Profile S@NL - BuddyWolly
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 31 May 99
Posts: 19
Credit: 8,523,679
RAC: 1
Netherlands
Message 532776 - Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 18:18:18 UTC - in response to Message 532734.  

<...>Actually, it is more likely that you have a large cache, and 5.8.11 is correctly determining that you are going to have trouble meeting deadlines before your next promissed connection. (only one setting available, and it is used to describe how long the network will be off between user initiated connections.)

No this has nothing to do with the cache. As you can see in my original post BOINC is trying to download a WU but the actual transfer does not succeed.

I had a look in my firewall log and it showed time-outs on a cogent server??? I don't have a hosts file set-up and running tracert on setiboincdata does not route via cogent.
Is there a config file within boinc holding route info?


ID: 532776 · Report as offensive
John McLeod VII
Volunteer developer
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 15 Jul 99
Posts: 24806
Credit: 790,712
RAC: 0
United States
Message 532924 - Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 23:42:07 UTC - in response to Message 532776.  

<...>Actually, it is more likely that you have a large cache, and 5.8.11 is correctly determining that you are going to have trouble meeting deadlines before your next promissed connection. (only one setting available, and it is used to describe how long the network will be off between user initiated connections.)

No this has nothing to do with the cache. As you can see in my original post BOINC is trying to download a WU but the actual transfer does not succeed.

I had a look in my firewall log and it showed time-outs on a cogent server??? I don't have a hosts file set-up and running tracert on setiboincdata does not route via cogent.
Is there a config file within boinc holding route info?


OK, if you are still going through Cogent, there is someplace a cached version of the DNS entry for S@H that is woefully out of date as S@H has moved to a new provider.


BOINC WIKI
ID: 532924 · Report as offensive
Alinator
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 19 Apr 05
Posts: 4178
Credit: 4,647,982
RAC: 0
United States
Message 532969 - Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 1:47:25 UTC
Last modified: 18 Mar 2007, 1:47:48 UTC

Actually, I think it was 5.8.8 he was trying with, and FWIW, my 9x'ers were not too happy with that version.

Might want to give 5.8.15 a try, which has run without any problems of this sort.

Alinator
ID: 532969 · Report as offensive
Profile Profi
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 8 Dec 00
Posts: 19
Credit: 20,552,123
RAC: 0
Poland
Message 543789 - Posted: 10 Apr 2007, 15:08:05 UTC

Hi,

I recently had the same problem "SETI@home|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_windows_intelx86.exe: system connect" and stuff like that..:) It seems like SETI data server was altered/changed. Previous connection rules for BOINC application to setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu (128.32.18.152, 208.68.240.11) and boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu (66.28.250.124, 208.68.204.13) is no longer sufficient. I had to add a rule for my firewall for BOINC.EXE application to allow outbound connections to setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.16). After creating this everything went smoothly..

Cheers,

josuah08

ID: 543789 · Report as offensive
John McLeod VII
Volunteer developer
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 15 Jul 99
Posts: 24806
Credit: 790,712
RAC: 0
United States
Message 544082 - Posted: 11 Apr 2007, 3:38:26 UTC - in response to Message 543789.  

Hi,

I recently had the same problem "SETI@home|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_windows_intelx86.exe: system connect" and stuff like that..:) It seems like SETI data server was altered/changed. Previous connection rules for BOINC application to setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu (128.32.18.152, 208.68.240.11) and boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu (66.28.250.124, 208.68.204.13) is no longer sufficient. I had to add a rule for my firewall for BOINC.EXE application to allow outbound connections to setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.16). After creating this everything went smoothly..

Cheers,

josuah08

Berkeley changed ISPs about a month ago. This of course generated new IP addresses.


BOINC WIKI
ID: 544082 · Report as offensive
Previous · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4

Questions and Answers : Windows : Why can't i upload/download from SETI?


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.