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Message 831311 - Posted: 16 Nov 2008, 23:39:43 UTC

Hi there,
I have linux but since yesterday i can't download new WU's. About 20 wu's are ready for download but im getting the message >>servers may be temporarily down.


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where exactly i have to add the following address to start downloading?
208.68.240.18 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu
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Message 831316 - Posted: 16 Nov 2008, 23:50:49 UTC - in response to Message 831174.  


Try adding:
208.68.240.18 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu
to your hosts file, log off/on and restart the client. This worked for me.


Simpler:
1. retry communications, so client wish to download
2. killall -TERM boinc
3. ping boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu
repeat until it returnx x.x.x.13 (we need x.x.x.18)
4. start boinc script again

for ping, my linux box is alternating between x.x.x.13/18.
If not, /etc/hosts is to be checjed.

73 Iztok

I was curious, so I tried your suggestion on my Win Vista box (which is having NO problems with communications).

When I repeatedly ping boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu it resolves to .13 every time and fails. Pinging .18 is, of course, successful. And yet, as I said, no comms problems here.

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Message 831320 - Posted: 17 Nov 2008, 0:00:27 UTC - in response to Message 831311.  

Hi there,
I have linux but since yesterday i can't download new WU's. About 20 wu's are ready for download but im getting the message >>servers may be temporarily down.


@gomeyer
where exactly i have to add the following address to start downloading?
208.68.240.18 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu


Hi Petros,

The file is named "hosts" and is in your /root/etc directory. Edit it as Admin and add that line. If you add it at the end of the file be sure to hit Enter, I've heard that a missing CR/LF *may* cause it to not work. (not sure about that but it can't hurt.)

Log off and on for the system to read the file; there may be another way to do that but it works for me.

Luck!
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Message 831326 - Posted: 17 Nov 2008, 0:22:01 UTC - in response to Message 831320.  


Hi Petros,

The file is named "hosts" and is in your /root/etc directory. Edit it as Admin and add that line. If you add it at the end of the file be sure to hit Enter, I've heard that a missing CR/LF *may* cause it to not work. (not sure about that but it can't hurt.)

Log off and on for the system to read the file; there may be another way to do that but it works for me.

Luck!


Thank you Sir for your help!

Yes it worked, my client has downloaded of all wus after a new log in!

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Message 831334 - Posted: 17 Nov 2008, 0:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 831326.  
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Hi Petros,

The file is named "hosts" and is in your /root/etc directory. Edit it as Admin and add that line. If you add it at the end of the file be sure to hit Enter, I've heard that a missing CR/LF *may* cause it to not work. (not sure about that but it can't hurt.)

Log off and on for the system to read the file; there may be another way to do that but it works for me.

Luck!


Thank you Sir for your help!

Yes it worked, my client has downloaded of all wus after a new log in!


Glad to help!

As an after-thought, Matt will probably fix this tomorrow. After he does you'll probably want to return things to normal by removing that line, or better still, comment it out with a pound sign. "#" This has happened before and may again. With the line still there it will be a snap to patch in the future.

[Edited for wording.]
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Message 832047 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008, 5:48:19 UTC
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There appears to be a a fair amount of incoming & outgoing traffic, but there's something definately screwy somewhere.
I had a whole bunch of results to upload, and new work allocated to download, but it was timing out after less than a second. (:http error)
Then as i started to type this out, it all went through- but the latest batch of downloads lined up are now all timing out in less than a second.
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Message 832173 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008, 18:41:09 UTC

HTTP errors on downloads !!!
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Message 832194 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008, 20:37:28 UTC

And HTTP errors on uploads !!!

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Message 832229 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008, 22:38:58 UTC - in response to Message 832194.  

Then you have the BOINC client messages --

11/19/2008 3:36:19 PM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

Which is rather inaccurate, it isn't that the servers are temporarily down, rather that they are permanently spotty.

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Message 832495 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008, 19:45:09 UTC

I dropped out of Seti a couple of weeks ago when everyday or two an uploaded result got "lost" and was listed as an eventual "timeout" in my result listings.
It was never an AP result but I found this rather disturbing.
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Message 832500 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008, 19:50:51 UTC - in response to Message 832173.  

HTTP errors on downloads !!!


As long as the HTTP errors don't cause DownLoad errors ;)


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Message 832524 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008, 20:42:20 UTC - in response to Message 832495.  
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I dropped out of Seti a couple of weeks ago when everyday or two an uploaded result got "lost" and was listed as an eventual "timeout" in my result listings.
It was never an AP result but I found this rather disturbing.


Normally a result can't be lost.

You had 'validate errors' in your overview?
Or how was it named?

Or it came back after deadline?

Or which problem?
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Message 832539 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008, 21:15:41 UTC - in response to Message 832495.  
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I dropped out of Seti a couple of weeks ago when everyday or two an uploaded result got "lost" and was listed as an eventual "timeout" in my result listings.
It was never an AP result but I found this rather disturbing.

If this WU is one of the ones you're talking about, could you please go into the stdoutdae.txt file in the BOINC folder and get the info in the log for when this task was downloaded, and uploaded, as well as any info that may have a bearing on that task.

I have a feeling this was a "ghost" that never really made it to your system because of a connection failure. If it is a ghost you'll notice around the time this task was supposed to be downloaded that BOINC reported a connection failure or something along those lines with no record of the task.

Just in case you don't get to it before it gets deleted the info to make a search of the log file with
Name 20au08ag.4001.96811.12.8.35_2 (this is the task id)
Sent 14 Oct 2008 23:06:36 UTC (you have to adjust this to your time zone)
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Message 832971 - Posted: 21 Nov 2008, 21:06:35 UTC - in response to Message 832539.  

I think you are correct...at that time the message indicated the server was down for maintenance and that ID is not found anywhere in the log. Thank You

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Message 833048 - Posted: 22 Nov 2008, 2:21:11 UTC - in response to Message 832971.  

I think you are correct...at that time the message indicated the server was down for maintenance and that ID is not found anywhere in the log. Thank You

Mo

Every Tuesday between ~ 18:00 - 22:00 UTC the servers are down for maintenance.
But you don't need to be afraid.. no WU/result will be lost.. the upload work in this time.. only the report will be little later..

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Message 834108 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008, 2:52:48 UTC

I'm getting HTTP errors on trying to download some files, I was able to upload and report, But not download.
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Message 834115 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008, 3:37:27 UTC

Haven't been able to download for around 4 hours. Uploads work.
Anybody else have the same problems?
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Message 834139 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008, 4:54:02 UTC

The Fish seems to be running Hot, Straight and Normal here now. :D
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Message 834140 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008, 4:55:09 UTC - in response to Message 834115.  

Haven't been able to download for around 4 hours. Uploads work.
Anybody else have the same problems?

Just had a look at my log- 2 stalled downloads, for about an hour or so now.
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Message 834141 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008, 5:02:39 UTC - in response to Message 834115.  

Downloads appear to be down, then up, then down. I'm on dialup and it's a bit tough to get work through. Hopefully it will be working well again very soon.

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