Folding@home & stanford.edu connectivity problem

[Madwand1]

I haven't seen any posts on this subject, so am wondering if I have an isolated connect-path problem with folding@home / stanford, or if anyone else knows about this problem. I cannot access folding@home's sites, nor any of stanford's. It's been down since the weekend.

Are you able to reach folding@home / stanford?

Do you know what the problem I'm having might be?

[17:34:41] + Attempting to send results
[17:35:02] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[17:35:02] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[17:35:02] (171.64.122.133:8080)
[17:35:02] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed May 5) to work server.


[17:35:02] + Attempting to send results
[17:35:24] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[17:35:24] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[17:35:24] (171.65.103.100:8080)
[17:35:24] Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[17:35:55] + Attempting to get work packet
[17:35:55] - Connecting to assignment server
[17:36:12] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[17:36:29] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[17:36:29] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[17:36:29] - Error: Attempt #92 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

 

[GLeeM]

Madwand1 welcome to the DC Forum and the TeAm!

Sorry you are having a problem.

I am connecting OK.

You connected OK to get that WU (work unit) that is trying to send in so something must have changed since then.

F@H uses HTTP to connect/send/get. One way to test if a server is "UP" is to enter its address in a browser. I tried - 171.64.122.133 - and got a page with "OK" on it.

Is maybe your firewall stopping the connection?

 

[Madwand1]

I can't see anything from Stanford at all, and my firewall logs don't show any relevant blockage. So I guess it's something to do with my ISP / their connectivity -- I'll try contacting them. (Ugh!)

Many thanks for your reply.

 

[Madwand1]

It's working again. Yeah! (I was worried I'd get cold with the CPU's taking a break.)

 

[GLeeM]

Originally posted by: Madwand1
It's working again. Yeah! (I was worried I'd get cold with the CPU's taking a break.)

That's great!

Did you have to do anything to get it to work? Or did it just start on its own?

 

[Madwand1]

I sent an email with a trace to my ISP, and it was working a while later. Cooincidence probably -- faster response than I would have expected. It's also possible that someone else reported the same problem to them a couple of days earlier.

Beyond that, no changes from my end, and everything just came back and auto-recovered -- the software's working as well as you'd hope/expect.