Lately I have bought a new modem and router and modem and ever since I got them I have been having trouble getting new work units. I think I might be some sort of port forwarding problem but I’m not 100% sure and I also can’t find what ports I need to forward if any.

In more detail the problem I am having is that BOINC will only update seti very rarely. Nine times out of ten it says it can’t connect even though the servers are up and running and I have a connection to the internet.

If anyone one could help me I would appreciate it.

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OK, first off for a typical residential setting you don't have to forward any ports on your router for BOINC to work. All contact sessions with a project are host initiated and the router will take care of directing the traffic automatically.

Second, new work is somewhat scarce right now due to technical reasons with the project backend. Everyone is having at least some trouble getting all the work their hosts are looking for. In this case, the best thing to do on your part is nothing. BOINC will keep on trying to get the work it wants from the project by itself and eventually it will get through and get some.

One thing to keep in mind, is to prevent hosts looking for work from creating a defacto denial of service 'attack' on the project, BOINC has a builtin psuedo random backoff mechanism for contacting the scheduler and ranges from seconds to hours. This may be why it seems that your host is ignoring SAH for lenghty periods of time.

If you want, you could copy some of the information BOINC has logged in the message tab of the manager when it tries to contact SAH and post it here, so we can take a look at it for you.

HTH,

Alinator

BOINC needs ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) open OUTBOUND ONLY to contact the servers. BOINC needs no ports inbound through the router.

Communications between the manager and the daemon (both parts of the install) requires incound and outbound access to port 31416 on the LAN ONLY (in otherwords personal firewalls have to let this in, but the router does not).

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thanks guys, it seems to be going better today and i think i will just let it sit for a while, if it keeps playing up i will post the messages from boinc in here.

thanks again

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Lucky You! I've not be able to 'update' for 3 days... (screwy server/something)

Lucky You! I've not be able to 'update' for 3 days... (screwy server/something)

Hum. I haven't been able to update for over 2 weeks now. In fact, I have no problem downloading the work units themselves. But I cannot for the life of me get my hands on the setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe client.

The problem appears to be that Boinc is being redirected to a file that resides on the nyud.net domain.

nyud.net is the domain marking the "Coral" PTP filesharing network. It appears to have been blocked by my network administrator.

Any thoughts?

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... But I cannot for the life of me get my hands on the setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe client.

The problem appears to be that Boinc is being redirected to a file that resides on the nyud.net domain.

nyud.net is the domain marking the "Coral" PTP filesharing network. It appears to have been blocked by my network administrator.

Any thoughts?

This problem is talked about in the following thread:
setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe:http error

Near the bottom is a post that gives a link to zip file you can download that you than place in the seti project folder.

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