Boinc.exe is having a long conversation with Google, and is slowly downloading several MB of something.

I am confused, and concerned.

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You have your computer(s) hidden, so if you want help, you\'ll have to paste the Messages here so that we can try and work out what is going on.

But BOINC does NOT talk to Google. If you see Google mentioned in the messages, it\'s just because both it and Yahoo are used for a reference, to see if BOINC can talk to the world outside your computer when it\'s having comms problems.

As for \'lots\' of download, this is a big project, with a lot of files, some big, that are needed to create the climate models.

Messages are:


23/05/2006 15:51:32||Starting BOINC client version 5.3.19 for windows_intelx86
23/05/2006 15:51:32||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Data directory: G:\\Climate_Change
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Duron(tm) Processor
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Memory: 479.48 MB physical, 1.80 GB virtual
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Disk: 48.30 GB total, 38.77 GB free
23/05/2006 15:51:32|climateprediction.net|Computer ID: 433437; location: home; project prefs: default
23/05/2006 15:51:32||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 1970-01-01 00:00:00)
23/05/2006 15:51:32||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Local control only allowed
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Listening on port 31416
23/05/2006 15:51:32|climateprediction.net|Resuming task sulphur_hv1a_100833374_1 using sulphur_cycle version 422
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted.
23/05/2006 15:51:32||Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted.
23/05/2006 15:51:38|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
23/05/2006 15:51:38|climateprediction.net|Reason: To send trickle-up message
23/05/2006 15:51:38|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
23/05/2006 15:51:39||HTTP error: couldnt resolve host name
23/05/2006 15:51:40||HTTP error: couldnt resolve host name
23/05/2006 15:51:43|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi failed: http error
23/05/2006 15:51:43|climateprediction.net|No schedulers responded
23/05/2006 15:51:43|climateprediction.net|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
23/05/2006 15:52:47|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
23/05/2006 15:52:47|climateprediction.net|Reason: To send trickle-up message
23/05/2006 15:52:47|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
23/05/2006 15:52:52|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded

Which have appeared many times before.

My concern is the firewall log:
302136 05/23/2006 16:22:18 Allowed 10 Outgoing TCP www.google.com [216.239.59.147] 05-00-20-00-05-00 80 nn.nn.nn.nnn 00-00-05-00-00-00 3446 G:\\Climate_Change\\boinc.exe Normal 1 05/23/2006 16:21:14 05/23/2006 16:21:14 GUI%GUICONFIG#SRULE@APPCONFIG-TCP#G:\\Climate_Change\\boinc.exe

showing - to my understanding - that BOINC is talking to google. Whilst this activity was going on, several MB was incoming, BOINC seemed not to be talking to any other internet address.

I have closed the BOINC manager now, because I need to change user - BOINC has had the computer to itself for about 4 hours.

I continue to be concerned

You have your computer(s) hidden, so if you want help, you\'ll have to paste the Messages here so that we can try and work out what is going on.

But BOINC does NOT talk to Google. If you see Google mentioned in the messages, it\'s just because both it and Yahoo are used for a reference, to see if BOINC can talk to the world outside your computer when it\'s having comms problems.

As for \'lots\' of download, this is a big project, with a lot of files, some big, that are needed to create the climate models.

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If Boinc is having problems talking to the project servers, it\'ll repeatedly query Google / Yahoo just to see if there is a viable network connection. We can see that it\'s not happy from the \'couldn\'t resolve host name\' messages, which means that it\'s having trouble talking to your ISP\'s DNS servers.

You may be better running with \'network activity suspended\' most of the time, and only set it to \'network activity always available\' when you know that the internet is available and the firewall is letting data through.

Boinc can have trouble with the network for the following reasons:

* Firewall (the most frequent problem)
* Proxy servers
* \'Flaky\' connections
* VPNs
* Dialup

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