On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:36:10 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:
(...)
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Reason: Requested by user
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Requesting 86400 seconds of new work
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36||Couldn't resolve hostname
%% [setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu]
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|Scheduler request to
%% http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
%% failed with a return value of -113
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|No schedulers responded
15.12.2005 00:48:39||Suspending computation and network activity
- user is active
(... end of this messages quoting)

I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...
Look like a problem with the nameresoulution. You can test it with a

BTW, am I right guessing that the first thing that should be loaded
via the grid is the SETI software (in its most recent version for
BOINC) ? I think so because I found no more any place to download
this software in the usual manner and because what is written on some
BOINC project website(s) suggests that it happens this way.
The boinc client downloads the setiathome app automaticly, after you

BTW it's not me or my PC that needs SETI and other grid projects,
so if 'they' want 'us' to run their projects (which in fact are really
interesting things) they should find time to help - or to publish for
all usual OSes and system config. a working 'way to start it'. If
this is not possible for so many users, I suggest that a small group
of (say a few thousand) users be first formed with which BOINC
could be thouroughly tested and brought to work.
You can post your problems to the help desk forums, too.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:36:10 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:

I haven't had any in weeks. I keep getting "Master file fetch failed". I
can't even get the website to come up. Is it just me or is everybody having
this problem?

I have stopped even trying since about 10 days. I tried my first
BOINC-Install. some months ago, but had problems with it and "not

Hello !
Ulysse Keller wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:36:10 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:
(...)
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36||Couldn't resolve hostname
%% [setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu]
(... end of this messages quoting)
I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...
Look like a problem with the nameresoulution. You can test it with a
"nslookup setiathome.berkeley.edu"

I have tried this (in a "DOS box"). This is what I get:

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:36:10 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:

I haven't had any in weeks. I keep getting "Master file fetch failed". I
can't even get the website to come up. Is it just me or is everybody
having
this problem?

I have stopped even trying since about 10 days. I tried my first
BOINC-Install. some months ago, but had problems with it and "not
much time for these things" - so I continued with SETI classic
"until the last moment" which was in fact already on Dec.12 when
Classic stopped working normally. Then I de-installed SETI classic
and BOINC, then re-installed BOINC which "looks now a bit better"
(I tried this time to apply the config. tips for my system with WinXP
and several users defined.) But when BOINC seems to be ready
to get data from the internet (and even when it asks for them) I only
get following messages, where I am using the %% signs to mean
"this line appears in red":

(...)
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Reason: Requested by user
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Requesting 86400 seconds of new work
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36||Couldn't resolve hostname
%% [setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu]
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|Scheduler request to
%% http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
%% failed with a return value of -113
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|No schedulers responded
15.12.2005 00:48:39||Suspending computation and network activity
- user is active
(... end of this messages quoting)

I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...

Nicht autorisierte Antwort:
Name: setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu
Addresses: 128.32.18.152, 128.32.18.151
Aliases: setiathome.berkeley.edu

(... end of nslookup answer ...)

Comment: the line after the blank one is a German line probably due to
my Windows (XP home) being in G., it seems to me that it means that
what follows is not quite 'official' - or something like that.
Litterally: "not authorized answer" (may-be not exactly, my English
might be not good enough and the ambiguities might differ in both
languages.) But may-be this is not important.
[ ... ]

I was getting that as well. Ultimately I fixed it by setting it to go
through a proxy. Funny thing is that after I did that I could remove the
proxy and it continued to work. After reading some posts at the SETI
message board I discovered there's an issue with packet size. Others have
had the same problem and hopefully they will fix it in the BOINC software.
In the seti@home help desk forums has some users also reported some

(...)
I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...
I was getting that as well. Ultimately I fixed it by setting it to go
through a proxy.

How do I set a proxy (on my PC which is stand-alone except for

Funny thing is that after I did that I could remove the
proxy and it continued to work. After reading some posts at the SETI
message board I discovered there's an issue with packet size. Others have
had the same problem and hopefully they will fix it in the BOINC software.

How long might this take ? With your answer to the above Q. I would

Fine, but then: where *is* the problem ? i.e. why doesn't "my" BOINC
find setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu ?
Which boinc version do you use ? - Have you tried to installed the new

How long might this take ? With your answer to the above Q. I would
not have to wait for that ... Tell me also how one removes the proxy
if it's not obvious in the context.
It looks like the seti scheduler had some problems. A lot of user posted

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:37:05 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:

(...)
I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...
I was getting that as well. Ultimately I fixed it by setting it to go
through a proxy.

How do I set a proxy (on my PC which is stand-alone except for
internet access - when connected to the provider) ? I am not
familiar with proxies and have a rather vague idea of what they are.
My OS is WinXPhome and I have several users defined, one with
admin rights and two without (I prefer accessing internet with one
of the latter because it is an additional security against malware
trying to exec. things needing admin. rights)

Funny thing is that after I did that I could remove the
proxy and it continued to work. After reading some posts at the SETI
message board I discovered there's an issue with packet size. Others have
had the same problem and hopefully they will fix it in the BOINC software.

How long might this take ? With your answer to the above Q. I would
not have to wait for that ... Tell me also how one removes the proxy
if it's not obvious in the context.

Hello !

Ulysse Keller wrote:
Fine, but then: where *is* the problem ? i.e. why doesn't "my" BOINC
find setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu ?
Which boinc version do you use ? - Have you tried to installed the new
one ?

I have de-installed it and repeated the download and installation.

Can you access setiathome.berkeley.edu from a browser on the affected
system ?
Have you tried, if you attach to a other project from this system ?
Have to tried to detach an re attach to the seti project ?

Regards

Lars