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Message 24333 - Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 6:10:44 UTC

The last few dates the gpugrid site is often unavailable. So when BOINC tries to update this project, it fails.
However I notice that since that time, no other project is updated anymore. If I try to do the update manually, the messages show that BOINC still tries to communicate with the gpugrid first, and since that fails, does not continue updating other projects.
I don't think this is related to gpugrid but I suspect it just happens with whatever site becomes unavailable when trying to update.
I tried dissabling the gpugrid project, hoping that my other projects could update as needed, but I did not manage this.
Any help is welcome.
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Message 24334 - Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 6:55:37 UTC

Which BOINC version, and which OS?
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Message 24339 - Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 11:29:02 UTC - in response to Message 24334.  

Boinc 6.6.20
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
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Message 24350 - Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 17:43:36 UTC - in response to Message 24339.  

I have seen this behaviour, but it isn't caused by BOINC per se. It's more a combination with the DNS cache in Windows and what's stored for BOINC.

The only way around it that I have found is to:
- exit BOINC.
- do ipconfig /flushdns from command line.
- restart BOINC.

Then everything works normally again.
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