I have just downloaded and installed BOINC after a holiday of approx. 8 years from SET@home. I try to conect to any of the projects and all I get is the error 'project temporarily unavailable'...
are all of them down? or am I doing something wrong?

I have just downloaded and installed BOINC after a holiday of approx. 8 years from SET@home. I try to conect to any of the projects and all I get is the error 'project temporarily unavailable'...
are all of them down? or am I doing something wrong?

SETI and Einstein definitely are up currently (as of 11:00 UTC). We need more information to analyse your problem. Go to the Messages tab of BOINC Manager and post the first few lines (30-40) after a restart of BOINC (or better a reboot) here.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Here is everything in the message page - I have checked the internet connection and the proxy settings

26/11/2008 09:29:14||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.19 for windows_intelx86
26/11/2008 09:29:14||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Running as a daemon
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Running under account boinc_master
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9]
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx
26/11/2008 09:29:14||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Memory: 479.48 MB physical, 1.10 GB virtual
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Disk: 76.29 GB total, 51.34 GB free
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Local time is UTC +0 hours
26/11/2008 09:29:14||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 239.74MB
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 431.53MB
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
26/11/2008 09:29:14||This computer is not attached to any projects
26/11/2008 09:29:14||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
26/11/2008 09:31:29||Fetching configuration file from http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:31:40||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:41:04||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:41:27||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
26/11/2008 09:42:51||BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.
26/11/2008 09:55:22||Fetching configuration file from http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:55:52||Fetching configuration file from http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:57:30||Fetching configuration file from http://www.malariacontrol.net/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:58:19||Fetching configuration file from http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:58:30||Fetching configuration file from http://predictor.scripps.edu/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 09:59:00||Fetching configuration file from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 10:07:51||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
26/11/2008 10:14:57||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
26/11/2008 10:14:57||Reading preferences override file
26/11/2008 10:14:57||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 239.74MB
26/11/2008 10:14:57||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 431.53MB
26/11/2008 10:14:57||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
26/11/2008 10:15:12||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
26/11/2008 10:15:12||Reading preferences override file
26/11/2008 10:15:12||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 239.74MB
26/11/2008 10:15:12||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 431.53MB
26/11/2008 10:15:12||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
26/11/2008 16:00:01||Suspending computation - time of day
27/11/2008 07:30:00||Resuming computation
27/11/2008 11:08:30||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
27/11/2008 11:12:23||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php

Are you using a proxy? If so, what kind of proxy? Did you set it up through BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->Options?
Did you allow BOINC (boinc.exe) to go through the firewall (TCP port 80 and 443)?

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HTTP proxy is set up via the menus
Windows firewall is setup for boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe

OK, just to make sure BOINC acknowledges your proxy correctly, let's force the authentication through the client command configuration file. Check this FAQ on how to set up the cc_config.xml file.

In short, make a cc_config.xml file in your BOINC Data directory (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC). To do so, open Notepad, add into it:

<cc_config>
<options>
<force_auth>basic</force_auth>
</options>
</cc_config>

Use Save As... and save the file as an All Files option. Do make sure that the file did not get the .txt extension, if it did, remember to rename the file so it only has the .xml extension!

The options for the <force_auth> flag are: <force_auth>basic | digest | gss-negotiate | ntlm</force_auth> .. it depends on the actual setup of your proxy which of the parameters you need.

When the file is saved in your BOINC Data directory, open BOINC Manager->Advanced->Read config file.

Now try to do communications again.

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still no luck

Is this computer at work, or at home?
Who installed the proxy?

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