I'm running BOINC 6.10.43 (MacBookPro, OSX 10.5.8) and get the same HTTP errors you are getting, also for about a week.

Try a re-boot... under Win XP, there area less intrusive ways of doing this, but they don't work on Mac's.

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

Even if we couldn't respond, I would still have this tech news on my rss news reader. I like to know how SETI is doing and plan computing resources appropriately.

Hmm.. strange..

Made a reboot of the PC and now the DL work.

Not so strange, DNS was supplying the IP addresses of both download servers, if your host was trying to download from the dead one it could only fail. I had to use the "ipconfig /flushdns" to get downloads.

Both are up now, thanks to whoever solved that!

                                                              Joe

BOINC v6.10.24 and above solved that, with a libcurl bug-fix which properly implements round-robin DNS.

Ohh well..

I got again DL probs.
So I made a reboot, didn't helped (with BOINC V6.10.18).
Then I installed BOINC V6.10.43, but also no joy, no DL possible, although a lot of DLs in the overview.

I like to edit the CPU name in the registry.. :-D
BOINC V6.10.43 or a version earlier don't take longer the CPU name from the registry like it V6.10.18 do, it take the info from somewhere other. My edit wasn't longer showed in BOINC Manager.

So I downgraded to BOINC V6.10.18, deleted the # signs in front of the SETI@home server addresses in my hosts file and BOINC DL now without probs. :-)

I would like if I could update to BOINC V6.10.43+ if a newer version take again the CPU name from the registry. ;-)
Why was it changed?

SETI@home crew, you know that somewhere is a prob?!

The members need this little 'hosts trick' for DL.. 'Message 992546'.


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Can anyone help tell me why I have not been able to download any SETI files for several days; all attempts come back with HTTP errors?
As can be seen below SETI downloads fail but all other transactions succeed.
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.19 for windows_intelx86
28/04/2010 16:35:11||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Running as a daemon
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Data directory: C:\documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Running under account boinc_master
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 2]
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
28/04/2010 16:35:11||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Memory: 1015.36 MB physical, 2.38 GB virtual
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Disk: 64.66 GB total, 28.51 GB free
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Local time is UTC +1 hours
28/04/2010 16:35:11|rosetta@home|URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 926641; location: home; project prefs: default
28/04/2010 16:35:11|ralph@home|URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/; Computer ID: 16049; location: home; project prefs: default
28/04/2010 16:35:11|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4628801; location: home; project prefs: default
28/04/2010 16:35:11||General prefs: from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 08-Jun-2006 10:33:55)
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Host location: none
28/04/2010 16:35:11||General prefs: using your defaults
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Reading preferences override file
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 507.68MB
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 913.82MB
28/04/2010 16:35:11||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
28/04/2010 16:35:11|SETI@home|Started download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249
28/04/2010 16:35:11|SETI@home|Started download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18
28/04/2010 16:35:12|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249: HTTP error
28/04/2010 16:35:12|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249
28/04/2010 16:35:12|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18: HTTP error
28/04/2010 16:35:12|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18
28/04/2010 16:35:32|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 11566 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
28/04/2010 16:35:37|rosetta@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
28/04/2010 16:35:39|SETI@home|Started download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249
28/04/2010 16:35:39|rosetta@home|Started download of symmetry_bench01_2akf_C.zip
28/04/2010 16:35:40|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249: HTTP error
28/04/2010 16:35:40|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 7 sec on download of 11ja07ah.8669.7843.10.10.249
28/04/2010 16:35:43|SETI@home|Started download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18
28/04/2010 16:35:44|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18: HTTP error
28/04/2010 16:35:44|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 20 sec on download of 01dc06ag.8810.6616.3.10.18
28/04/2010 16:35:56|rosetta@home|Finished download of symmetry_bench01_2akf_C.zip

Leonari.

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Can anyone help tell me why I have not been able to download any SETI files for several days; all attempts come back with HTTP errors?
As can be seen below SETI downloads fail but all other transactions succeed.

Leonari.

Hi Leonari,

One of the download server's was acting up. In the most recent tech news above this one, Matt thinks he just fixed it a bit ago. Try again. If it still doesn't work, please come back and let us know!

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Thanks, everything is back to normal now!
However, after a bit of thought, why did it take so many hours (until just now and my personal intervention @ UTC 07:00) for the remedy to filter down to my machine? Seems strange.

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Thanks, everything is back to normal now!
However, after a bit of thought, why did it take so many hours (until just now and my personal intervention @ UTC 07:00) for the remedy to filter down to my machine? Seems strange.

When you ask for the address for the download server you get one of two addresses with a 50% probability if everything is working. Your computer is told not to check the address again for 24 hours, so when things go wrong, it takes up to 24 hours to get the other address. If the round robin DNS does not know about the problem, you still have a 50% chance of getting the address of the broken server.

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[quote
When you ask for the address for the download server you get one of two addresses with a 50% probability if everything is working. Your computer is told not to check the address again for 24 hours, so when things go wrong, it takes up to 24 hours to get the other address. If the round robin DNS does not know about the problem, you still have a 50% chance of getting the address of the broken server.[/quote]

So is that why I'm not getting any WU's at this time? I ran out of seti WU's this afternoon and it keeps polling for new ones and i keep getting this:

5/2/2010 8:42:00 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

When you ask for the address for the download server you get one of two addresses with a 50% probability if everything is working. Your computer is told not to check the address again for 24 hours, so when things go wrong, it takes up to 24 hours to get the other address. If the round robin DNS does not know about the problem, you still have a 50% chance of getting the address of the broken server.

So is that why I'm not getting any WU's at this time? I ran out of seti WU's this afternoon and it keeps polling for new ones and i keep getting this:

5/2/2010 8:42:00 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

If you are getting an answer from the server, you have obviously no problem connecting to it. ;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

anyone else still have no work or is it just me?

No I have been getting the no new work message on one of my machine my quad, however my P4 download on at 10:15 UTC must have had one of the last lot It was a shortie

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I have got plenty of "Scheduler request failed: Error 417."
And my statistics are frozen since 13.April 2010 :-(
Cheers, Andreas

I'm getting this mesage ''SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)'' too!

Take a look at the server status page - there are virtually no "tapes" to process, so the splitters are taking a holiday.
So chill out and let your crunchers catch their breath.

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

Good Morning to all,

Like some, I have also received no new tasks and I do have a small backlong of unvalidate tasks (15-20).

I know that those who work with this equipment are doing all in their power to get things back online.

'Till then......patience and forebearence! (smile)

Be Blessed & Be A Blessing


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