How do you execute that?

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How do you execute that?

I believe it should read "ipconfig /flushdns" and you have to enter it in a command window (without quotes).

How do you execute that?

Pull up a RUN command window.... then copy and paste into that small window.... > ipconfig /flushdns < ...... just the words......and click OK. Then close down and re-run BOINC. If it doesn't work, do it again and try the ipconfig /flushdns two or three times before closing down and restarting BOINC.

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I DONATE money to SETI@home.... DO YOU?

I'm just slowly BOINC'ing along.

Hey... ET... you have a sister who likes earthlings?

Seems like it would be a hell of a lot easier to wait till monday.

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Old James

under Vista you have to run the command line thing as administrator to execute the ipconfig /flushdns command (the cmd.exe, not sure how its name is in English windows, the German name of that tool is roughly translated "input request" but I bet thats not the correct name. Its found under all programs>accesories). Now everythings fine.

Have any of you tried Sutaru's way?

it solved my issue straight away.

his post is about 15-16 below this one...

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Hey :)

First time posting on here, i have flushed the DNS afew times now and its only a temp fix to the download issue, anyone got any other suggestions ?

This is a well way for to get the DL working.

[Message 950653]

But, in some days if the Berkeley crew looked to the prob - I guess this won't longer work. So you need to delete this two IPs again out of the hosts file.

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DNS flushing worked on a couple of my PCs, one just refused to obey orders, one sorted itself out with just a stop/start BOINC cycle, one I just rebooted, and the other was in the "Well if it does, it does" pile, so I left it overnight, and this morning its working. At first I didn't think there was a "global" problem, because most of my PCs suffered from the local power cuts and internet connection faults that started sometime on Friday and continued until Sunday afternoon - there's no point in looking for problems when the power is going off frequently and computers, network kit and so on following very rapidly. The UPS batteries were hammered by the first and outs and hadn't recovered enough to keep things alive when the third came along......

I really hope Matt et-al had a good, and much deserved break, and that the errant behaviour of the servers and network gear at their end didn't interrupt their festivities.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

For windows based computers....this worked for me.
shut down boinc
open the run... box and start a command window (cmd)
type exit
cmd prompt will now be in your recent tasks list
right click on this item (cmd prompt) and run as administrator
command window will come up
typo in "ipconfig /flushdns" without the quotes
hit enter
type exit hit enter
restart boinc

this worked for me

I took a similar tact. I created a CMD shortcut which I could run as administrator. The ipconfig/flushdns command worked like a charm

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-Bill

New problem this morning. Two P4 machines a 3.0 HT and a 3.8 HT both w/4GB RAM. Windows Seti versions 6.6.38 & 6.10.17 running tasks in the 08 and 16 name series under "Time To Completion" show 100 to + 200 hours. Normal times for these machines are in the 4 to 8 hour range. All other computers with a variety of CPUs and cores seem normal. These are not Astropulse tasks. What gives? I aborted several but new downloads in these series still show excessive run times.

Lee

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Delta-V

Most all the WUs I have are in those ranges and they are showing normal "to completion" times. 08no06 and 16no06 series. I'm also running 6.10.17 on a Celeron dual core. Have you run one to see how long they actually run?

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

The times are falling off sharply. One that said it would run 113 hours has run
2:40 and only says it needs another 34 hours and that its 24% done. I'll have to wait and see. I have 2 other hyper threading P4s and they give normal times. The only thing different with the 2 in question is that they are also running Cuda applications................

Thanks,

Lee Gresham







Total credit: 6,760,715

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Delta-V

Are the servers still encountering issues? I Have not successfully downloaded or uploaded any data in several days. Thanks.

Hi, sorry but I forgot to include my messages log in the other post. I flushed my DNS cache and it did not help. Thanks.

11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_intelx86
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Running under account (redacted)
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Processor: 4.00 MB cache
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x86 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 5.99 GB virtual
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Disk: 217.77 GB total, 59.46 GB free
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Local time is UTC -5 hours
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8600 GT (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 76 GFLOPS peak)
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Not using a proxy
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 4677997; resource share 100
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Reading preferences override file
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1534.96MB
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2762.93MB
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_AUTHORS
11/30/2009 9:27:20 PM SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYING
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_AUTHORS: connect() failed
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Backing off 5 min 42 sec on download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_AUTHORS
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYING: connect() failed
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 57 sec on download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYING
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYRIGHT
11/30/2009 9:27:23 PM SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_README
11/30/2009 9:27:25 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYRIGHT: connect() failed
11/30/2009 9:27:25 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_COPYRIGHT
11/30/2009 9:27:25 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_README: connect() failed
11/30/2009 9:27:25 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.08_cuda_README

This is for technical news.
Try the Number Crunching forum, or the Help forum for your particular Operating System & people will be able to help you there.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Stopped Boinc, ran "ipconfig /flushdns" on my Windows 7 Professional computer then restarted Boinc. Files were downloaded and processing started.

Thanks for the "hint" ;-)

Same problem as Phoenixfire1965 (no work for several days). I'm running on a Mac Pro. Should I be doing something or is this just a case of waiting for a fix?

Please people, read the whole thread.

If the DNS flush don't work..

[Message 950952] in this thread.

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