I am running BOINC 5.10.30 on Windows XP 64bit and I am getting a message saying no default connection specified. When I go to advanced settings to pick a Internet connection I see that there is none listed. I also have VMware installed but running or not I get the same problem.

What method of connecting to the internet do you use? Modem, cable, (A)DSL, LAN, other (specify)?

If you check the Activity menu, what is your setting for the Network?

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I am running BOINC 5.10.30 on Windows XP 64bit and I am getting a message saying no default connection specified. When I go to advanced settings to pick a Internet connection I see that there is none listed. I also have VMware installed but running or not I get the same problem.

VMware has nothing to do with your internet-connection as long as you don't use a VM-based Web-Proxy like Squid or routing all your traffic thru a VM with IPCOP.
Which type of network-connection you have setted up for VMware?
VMnet0 (Bridged) or VMnet1(Host-only) or VMnet8(NAT)

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I took some screen shots of my problem they are at
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/1.png though 5.png

here is an output of my log:
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.41 for windows_x86_64
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3]
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: , Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.75 GB virtual
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Disk: 233.75 GB total, 77.78 GB free
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Version change (5.10.30 -> 5.10.41)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||This computer is not attached to any projects
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Running CPU benchmarks
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM||Benchmark results:
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| Number of CPUs: 2
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 2979 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 6825 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/16/2008 1:11:36 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/16/2008 1:11:37 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/16/2008 1:11:39 PM||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.

I took some screen shots of my problem they are at
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/1.png though 5.png

Get this cc_config.xml file, save it on C:Program filesBOINC, and restart the client. Then post the new log.

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I took some screen shots of my problem they are at
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/1.png though 5.png

here is an output of my log:
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.41 for windows_x86_64
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Data directory: C:Program FilesBOINC
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3]
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: , Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.75 GB virtual
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Disk: 233.75 GB total, 77.78 GB free
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Version change (5.10.30 -> 5.10.41)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||This computer is not attached to any projects
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Running CPU benchmarks
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM||Benchmark results:
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| Number of CPUs: 2
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 2979 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 6825 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/16/2008 1:11:36 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/16/2008 1:11:37 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/16/2008 1:11:39 PM||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.

Why you don't answer the questions from Ageless:

What method of connecting to the internet do you use? Modem, cable, (A)DSL, LAN, other (specify)?

If you check the Activity menu, what is your setting for the Network?
"Modem, cable, (A)DSL, LAN, other (specify)?

Without that simple answers your log is useless...

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I took some screen shots of my problem they are at
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/1.png though 5.png

Get this cc_config.xml file, save it on C:Program filesBOINC, and restart the client. Then post the new log.

I downloaded the file, there wasn't a cc_config.xml already in the directory, I dont know if it was supposed to overwrite an existing file or not. Here is the output of the log:
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.41 for windows_x86_64
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, http_debug
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3]
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: , Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.75 GB virtual
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Disk: 233.75 GB total, 66.54 GB free
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: About to connect() to setiathome.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Trying 128.32.18.150...
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Failed to connect to 128.32.18.150: Network down
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: couldn't connect to host
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Expire cleared
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Closing connection #0
2/24/2008 11:26:46 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server

BTW I failed to answer the previous question. I am on a cable modem connection behind a NAT firewall.

I took some screen shots of my problem they are at
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/1.png though 5.png

here is an output of my log:
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.41 for windows_x86_64
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Data directory: C:Program FilesBOINC
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3]
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: , Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.75 GB virtual
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Disk: 233.75 GB total, 77.78 GB free
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Version change (5.10.30 -> 5.10.41)
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||This computer is not attached to any projects
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
2/15/2008 9:32:26 AM||Running CPU benchmarks
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM||Benchmark results:
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| Number of CPUs: 2
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 2979 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/15/2008 9:32:58 AM|| 6825 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/16/2008 1:11:36 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/16/2008 1:11:37 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/16/2008 1:11:39 PM||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.

Why you don't answer the questions from Ageless:

What method of connecting to the internet do you use? Modem, cable, (A)DSL, LAN, other (specify)?

If you check the Activity menu, what is your setting for the Network?
"Modem, cable, (A)DSL, LAN, other (specify)?

Without that simple answers your log is useless...

I appologize, I must of skimmed right over it. I am on a cable connection behind a NAT firewall. Do I need to forward any ports?

Oh and just for the record the connected light is on the modem and I am connected and communicating on this forum with the same computer that his having connection problems in BOINC.

I have 'Run Always' and 'Network activity always available' selected.

VMware has nothing to do with your internet-connection as long as you don't use a VM-based Web-Proxy like Squid or routing all your traffic thru a VM with IPCOP.
Which type of network-connection you have setted up for VMware?
VMnet0 (Bridged) or VMnet1(Host-only) or VMnet8(NAT)[/quote]


I am using VMnet0 for VMware.

Summa from many posts.
You need no forwarding ports because connections from lan/intranet to wan/internet are normally ever accepted.

VMnet0 means Bridged and all network-setting should set up by a dhcp-server. Ahh. Has your cable modem the ability to act as such an device? Mostly known to me if not all cable-modems has only one port for lan and one for wan. If you try to connect a switch or hub behind such modem, all clients would have the same ip-adress and that will cause routing problems.
Which Cable modem with nat-firewall did you have?
If your modem has no ability to act as dhcp-server for further hosts you must change vmnet-settings to VMnet8(Nat). Your VM will get then an ip from VMware-dhcp-server and connect thru your XP64 to the world. Allowing other hosts to use your internet-connection must be enabled in network-config from XP64.

Confirm before connecting to internet like on pic5.png is a setting that i never used before. If you have a flatrate you don't need that setting but for security-reason you should ever block all incoming traffic!

Are you sure you have attached to any project? I ask because past i have read this:

2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects


If you have attached you should also set up preferences for Boinc-usage. Especially if you own a multi-core-cpu settings need some tuning ;-)
Therefor you have two choices. You use project-settings and General preferences or you set up preferences inside your boinc-app.

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Summa from many posts.
You need no forwarding ports because connections from lan/intranet to wan/internet are normally ever accepted.

VMnet0 means Bridged and all network-setting should set up by a dhcp-server. Ahh. Has your cable modem the ability to act as such an device? Mostly known to me if not all cable-modems has only one port for lan and one for wan. If you try to connect a switch or hub behind such modem, all clients would have the same ip-adress and that will cause routing problems.
Which Cable modem with nat-firewall did you have?
If your modem has no ability to act as dhcp-server for further hosts you must change vmnet-settings to VMnet8(Nat). Your VM will get then an ip from VMware-dhcp-server and connect thru your XP64 to the world. Allowing other hosts to use your internet-connection must be enabled in network-config from XP64.

Confirm before connecting to internet like on pic5.png is a setting that i never used before. If you have a flatrate you don't need that setting but for security-reason you should ever block all incoming traffic!

Are you sure you have attached to any project? I ask because past i have read this:

2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/24/2008 11:26:29 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects


If you have attached you should also set up preferences for Boinc-usage. Especially if you own a multi-core-cpu settings need some tuning ;-)
Therefor you have two choices. You use project-settings and General preferences or you set up preferences inside your boinc-app.

Ok Just to be clear. I do have VMware installed but I am not running BOINC on a virtual machine. It is being ran on the host machine. I just mentioned it because I know it has some special drivers loading on the host machine.

The firewall also has a built-in DHCP server which I am using.

My main problem is that I cannot attach to any projects because I could never get BOINC to connect to them. Its the weirdest thing. As far as BOINC is concerned I have no internet connection. This is of course false.

I get a pop-up window that says:
"BOINC Manager - Network Status:
BOINC couldn't do Internet communication, and no default connection is selected.
Please connect to the Internet, or select a default connecting using Advanced/Options/Connections."

Here is the screen shot of Advanced/Options/Connections
[url=http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/3.png[/url]

Ok Just to be clear. I do have VMware installed but I am not running BOINC on a virtual machine. It is being ran on the host machine. I just mentioned it because I know it has some special drivers loading on the host machine.

The firewall also has a built-in DHCP server which I am using.

My main problem is that I cannot attach to any projects because I could never get BOINC to connect to them. Its the weirdest thing. As far as BOINC is concerned I have no internet connection. This is of course false.

I get a pop-up window that says:
"BOINC Manager - Network Status:
BOINC couldn't do Internet communication, and no default connection is selected.
Please connect to the Internet, or select a default connecting using Advanced/Options/Connections."

Here is the screen shot of Advanced/Options/Connections
[url=http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/3.png[/url]

Okaydokay, no VM.
Restricts your firewall the web-access or can you change/set up settings for routing?
Try out to disable "Confirm before connecting to internet" like seen on 5.png.
Are you using a account with restricted rights for Boinc?

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Ok Just to be clear. I do have VMware installed but I am not running BOINC on a virtual machine. It is being ran on the host machine. I just mentioned it because I know it has some special drivers loading on the host machine.

The firewall also has a built-in DHCP server which I am using.

My main problem is that I cannot attach to any projects because I could never get BOINC to connect to them. Its the weirdest thing. As far as BOINC is concerned I have no internet connection. This is of course false.

I get a pop-up window that says:
"BOINC Manager - Network Status:
BOINC couldn't do Internet communication, and no default connection is selected.
Please connect to the Internet, or select a default connecting using Advanced/Options/Connections."

Here is the screen shot of Advanced/Options/Connections
[url=http://web.tampabay.rr.com/baddawgie0/images/3.png[/url]

Okaydokay, no VM.
Restricts your firewall the web-access or can you change/set up settings for routing?
Try out to disable "Confirm before connecting to internet" like seen on 5.png.
Are you using a account with restricted rights for Boinc?

Disabling "Confirm before ocnnecting" seemed to have helped. There seems to be some DNS resolution happening in the logs but still no connection to any project.

2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.41 for windows_x86_64
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, http_debug
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3]
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: , Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.75 GB virtual
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Disk: 233.75 GB total, 66.55 GB free
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects
2/24/2008 11:52:39 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
2/24/2008 11:56:28 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://abcathome.com/get_project_config.php
2/24/2008 11:56:28 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://abcathome.com/get_project_config.php
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: About to connect() to abcathome.com port 80 (#0)
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Trying 132.229.228.47...
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Failed to connect to 132.229.228.47: Network down
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: couldn't connect to host
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Expire cleared
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] [ID#0] info: Closing connection #0
2/24/2008 11:56:29 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://www.google.com
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: About to connect() to www.google.com port 80 (#0)
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Trying 209.85.165.147...
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Failed to connect to 209.85.165.147: Network down
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Trying 209.85.165.104...
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Failed to connect to 209.85.165.104: Network down
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Trying 209.85.165.103...
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Failed to connect to 209.85.165.103: Network down
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Trying 209.85.165.99...
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Failed to connect to 209.85.165.99: Network down
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: No error
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: couldn't connect to host
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Expire cleared
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#1] info: Closing connection #0
2/24/2008 11:56:30 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
2/24/2008 11:56:31 PM||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.
2/26/2008 10:01:20 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/26/2008 10:01:20 PM||Reading preferences override file
2/26/2008 10:01:20 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/26/2008 10:01:20 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/26/2008 10:01:20 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: About to connect() to setiathome.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: Trying 128.32.18.150...
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: Failed to connect to 128.32.18.150: Network down
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: No error
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: couldn't connect to host
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: Expire cleared
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] [ID#2] info: Closing connection #0
2/26/2008 10:02:05 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
2/26/2008 10:03:35 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/26/2008 10:03:35 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/26/2008 10:03:35 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/26/2008 10:03:35 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/26/2008 10:03:44 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/26/2008 10:03:44 PM||Reading preferences override file
2/26/2008 10:03:44 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.09MB
2/26/2008 10:03:44 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.77MB
2/26/2008 10:03:44 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: About to connect() to setiathome.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: Trying 128.32.18.150...
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: Failed to connect to 128.32.18.150: Network down
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: No error
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: couldn't connect to host
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: Expire cleared
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] [ID#3] info: Closing connection #0
2/26/2008 10:03:50 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: About to connect() to setiathome.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: Trying 128.32.18.150...
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: Failed to connect to 128.32.18.150: Network down
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: No error
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: couldn't connect to host
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: Expire cleared
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] [ID#4] info: Closing connection #0
2/26/2008 10:05:35 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.primegrid.com/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://www.primegrid.com/get_project_config.php
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: About to connect() to www.primegrid.com port 80 (#0)
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: Trying 217.67.229.239...
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: Failed to connect to 217.67.229.239: Network down
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: No error
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: couldn't connect to host
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: Expire cleared
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] [ID#5] info: Closing connection #0
2/26/2008 10:07:30 PM||[http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server

Disabling "Confirm before ocnnecting" seemed to have helped. There seems to be some DNS resolution happening in the logs but still no connection to any project.
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Please can you post cmdline-output from >ipconfig /all< and type of your cabel-modem.

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Disabling "Confirm before ocnnecting" seemed to have helped. There seems to be some DNS resolution happening in the logs but still no connection to any project.
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Please can you post cmdline-output from >ipconfig /all< and type of your cabel-modem.

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : baddawgie
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Belkin
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.208.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 10:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.131.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Belkin
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-A2-6A-FF
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:52:32 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:52:31 PM

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-FF-37-90-AA-92


I dont know what you mean type of cable modem? it has a RG59 with a F type connector on one end and RJ45 connector on the other. It is hooked up to my Belkin router and firewall.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : baddawgie
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Belkin
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Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Belkin
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
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I'm not a network-guru but IP Routing should be enabled and DNS Suffix is normally not in use in SOHO-area.

edit:
Are you using the nForce-Hardware-Firewall?

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Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : baddawgie
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Belkin
...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Belkin
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
...

I'm not a network-guru but IP Routing should be enabled and DNS Suffix is normally not in use in SOHO-area.

edit:
Are you using the nForce-Hardware-Firewall?

No I dont use any software based firewalls not even windows firewall. I am not understanding you when you said DNS suffix is normally not in use in the SOHO-area?

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : baddawgie
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Belkin
...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Belkin
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
...

I'm not a network-guru but IP Routing should be enabled and DNS Suffix is normally not in use in SOHO-area.

edit:
Are you using the nForce-Hardware-Firewall?

No I dont use any software based firewalls not even windows firewall. I am not understanding you when you said DNS suffix is normally not in use in the SOHO-area?

okay, SOHO means Small Office Home Office. Please delete Belkin from "DNS Suffix Search List" and "Connection-specific DNS Suffix".
No Firewall is really bad. Please enable firewall for security reasons or some bad guys hack your PC and use it as SPAM-Bot.

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No Firewall is really bad. Please enable firewall for security reasons or some bad guys hack your PC and use it as SPAM-Bot.

Oh sure, having no firewall is an immediate hack right...

A firewall blocks people from connecting to your machine. But your machine shouldn't have anything running that lets people connect to it and send spam anyway. The main protection you get is against currently-unfixed security vulnerabilities.

Also, I run no software firewall, because my router blocks all ports anyway. Software firewalls then are just an annoyance.

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Also, I run no software firewall, because my router blocks all ports anyway. Software firewalls then are just an annoyance.

One thing software firewalls can protect against is malicious content of websites you are currently browsing. For example, 'drive-by' downloads of spyware. These sometimes come from an advertiser on an otherwise trusted website.

(But since I don't browse the internet from my boinc-only machines, I don't always bother with a firewall on those boxes).

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