Can you post the whole line from your hosts file.

# 63.247.72.178 lunatics.kwsn.net

Floyd, you've included the comment marker "#" and the line will be ignored. Remove the # sign and try again.

From the Hosts file instructions:

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

OK , I removed the # from the beginning of that line and closed and reopened the IE browser , still can't get past the Domain expired page , Could the DNS cache need to be emptied some how ?

If so How can I do that ?

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cmd as administrator, ipconfig /flushdns.

Or reboot the computer. Either one should do it.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

After a machine recycle & 24 hrs later, I attempted to access to the Lunatics site and was stopped at the Kwsn.net page that had the expiration notice. I checked my hosts file, which had contained both the Berkeley server & the newly added Lunatics, and the file had been wiped CLEAN. EVERYTHING IN THE FILE HAD BEEN DELETED!! Luckily I had a copy of the original file and was able to recreate the file.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

From England,
I too am getting the domain has expired message when I access directly using the nslookup IP address of http://208.73.210.155/

However when I use the url lunatics.kwsn.net I get redirected to an online gambling site.

My hosts file is intact and contains no lunatics entries, so it appears that they haven't paid the ISP or their nameserver needs updating.

Reg


[edit] when I go to 63.247.72.178 I get this

Ni!

You may be looking for one of these sites:

The KWSN Orbiting Fortress forum

KWSN BOINC statistics

Lunatics optimized Seti@home apps [which takes me here] >>>>>
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This domain has expired. If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance. If you need help identifying your provider, visit http://tucowsdomains.com.

Kwsn.net

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In case people haven't noticed (I'm sure they have, but I don't think anybody has mentioned it in this discussion yet), the domain name expiry also affects http://stats.kwsn.net/, the statistics site for "The Knights Who Say 'Ni!'".

That's one of the six combined stats sites effectively 'endorsed' by BOINC centrally: their link appears on the account page for every user, on every BOINC project using anything close to the BOINC standard website code.

Problems accessing the Lunatics site are a tiny side-effect of the larger problem (Lunatics has - very kindly - been lent a very small corner of that much larger hosting operation). I'm sure the Knights are making every effort to overcome the hurdles in the way of their domain renewal, as Claggy explained some time ago in this thread.

From England,
I too am getting the domain has expired message when I access directly using the nslookup IP address of http://208.73.210.155/

However when I use the url lunatics.kwsn.net I get redirected to an online gambling site.

My hosts file is intact and contains no lunatics entries, so it appears that they haven't paid the ISP or their nameserver needs updating.

Reg


[edit] when I go to 63.247.72.178 I get this

Ni!

You may be looking for one of these sites:

The KWSN Orbiting Fortress forum

KWSN BOINC statistics

Lunatics optimized Seti@home apps [which takes me here] >>>>>
>>>
This domain has expired. If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance. If you need help identifying your provider, visit http://tucowsdomains.com.

Kwsn.net

I get the same results too and I'm in the southwestern part of the US.

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

After a machine recycle & 24 hrs later, I attempted to access to the Lunatics site and was stopped at the Kwsn.net page that had the expiration notice. I checked my hosts file, which had contained both the Berkeley server & the newly added Lunatics, and the file had been wiped CLEAN. EVERYTHING IN THE FILE HAD BEEN DELETED!! Luckily I had a copy of the original file and was able to recreate the file.

A possibility: Some kinds of malware use the hosts file as an attack vector, so some anti-malware software might try to counteract that by clearing the file.

                                                                   Joe

I also have a dead link here as well in the NE part of US. It's possible that my router caches the DNS but I doubt it. I have ATT U-Verse as my ISP.

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"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor

This would be a disaster for the Knights as a whole, not just the Lunatics.

So has anyone heard from the KWSN admins as to what is happening and when they expect to be back up ?

T.A.

After a machine recycle & 24 hrs later, I attempted to access to the Lunatics site and was stopped at the Kwsn.net page that had the expiration notice. I checked my hosts file, which had contained both the Berkeley server & the newly added Lunatics, and the file had been wiped CLEAN. EVERYTHING IN THE FILE HAD BEEN DELETED!! Luckily I had a copy of the original file and was able to recreate the file.

A possibility: Some kinds of malware use the hosts file as an attack vector, so some anti-malware software might try to counteract that by clearing the file.

                                                                   Joe

Never had a problem with the hosts file until I put the Lunatics data in it.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

Never had a problem with the hosts file until I put the Lunatics data in it.

Got to be carefull where you put the fingers.

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Grant
Darwin NT

That's a bummer.

I just returned to crunching and now their site is down :(

Luckily I could locate a copy of the GPU client elsewhere on the web.

Cheers
Hans

P.S: If anyone knows any details, please drop me a line!

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THE WHITE DOG IS UP AND RUNNING

bj
WØBJH AMATEUR RADIO

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Well it finally came up for me when I checked an hour ago. Earlier in the day I was still getting the domain not found message.

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"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor

The proper IP is now known by my ISP's nameserver, but not yet by the Google public nameserver at 8.8.8.8 so it may well be a day or so before it's right for everyone.

                                                                   Joe

It's working here again.

Cheers.

Yep, works here too ! :)

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Dell XPS L702x
smokin' weed and searching for aliens .... ;]
TRUSTNO1

Obviously put the penny in the slot - thanks:-)

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

Could someone post a link to the new site when it's up?
Thanks.

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Could someone post a link to the new site when it's up?
Thanks.

The original link I had been using for years is working again.
http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."