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Message 48477 - Posted: 5 May 2011, 4:05:43 UTC
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I’ve been getting this message for some time now, with 24-hour deferrals. I have a completed task that’s been “ready to report” for several days—’way past its deadline at this point. Other BOINC projects are communicating normally. I don’t see any postings of similar problems here … is it just me? Any suggestions?

Wed  4 May 21:57:33 2011	Milkyway@home	update requested by user
Wed  4 May 21:57:38 2011	Milkyway@home	Fetching scheduler list
Wed  4 May 21:58:55 2011		Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Wed  4 May 21:58:57 2011		Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.


P.S. Server status is showing all green at the moment.
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Message 48478 - Posted: 5 May 2011, 7:07:15 UTC

Shutdown and reboot, try again.
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Message 48498 - Posted: 6 May 2011, 1:13:42 UTC - in response to Message 48478.  

Thanks for the reply. I don’t like to reboot this machine, but we’ll see what happens after the next time it’s shut down for cleaning—it’ll be due in a few weeks.
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Message 48499 - Posted: 6 May 2011, 1:18:14 UTC - in response to Message 48498.  
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You might have to do a DNS cache flush. Sometimes it like's to stick around, even on platforms other than MS. ;-)

That counts as better than a reboot in my book! :-D
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Message 48514 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 2:56:32 UTC - in response to Message 48499.  

Thank you much—that did the trick: quitting BOINC, typing

lookupd -flushcache

in the Terminal, and relaunching. I even got credit for my late result, because the replacement task hasn’t been reported yet. W00t!
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Message 48642 - Posted: 9 May 2011, 19:19:39 UTC - in response to Message 48514.  

LOL...

Cool, glad it worked out! :D
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