The DENIS@Home project, based at San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain, is back online.

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Great news. Please, insert it in the list of available projects in boinc manager.

Great news. Please, insert it in the list of available projects in boinc manager.

It's on https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php already: your computer should pick it up automatically within two weeks (unless you've politely declined to pester Google every time your internet connection goes down).

(unless you've politely declined to pester Google every time your internet connection goes down).

What does it means?

(unless you've politely declined to pester Google every time your internet connection goes down).

What does it means?

There is an option in Client configuration (cc_config.xml) which says:

<dont_contact_ref_site>0|1</dont_contact_ref_site>
To determine if a physical network connection exists, the client occasionally contacts a highly-available web site (google.com). If this flag is set, this behavior is suppressed. This flag also suppresses a periodic fetch of a project list from boinc.berkeley.edu.

That procedure was written into BOINC many years ago, when dial-up internet connections were unreliable. I now have a robust fibre-optic internet connection, and I don't need to rely on BOINC to tell me about the rare occasions when it goes down - I usually know about the problem before BOINC does. So, I choose not to let BOINC contact Google for this purpose.

I did ask recently why these two seemingly unrelated features were combined under a single configuration option, and I was told that it was for the benefit of large corporate users of BOINC (or individual users of BOINC within a large corporate environment), where the internet traffic management of the organisation wish to lock down all internet access to 'authorised traffic/destinations only'. I'm not sure I'm convinced by that argument, but it's not worth going to the barricades over.

Back to the original point - I was wrong. DENIS@Home won't re-appear in the 'attach to project' wizard quite yet - it's only been partially reinstated to just one of the BOINC lists. Users will need to look up the manual-attach url via https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php - which turns out to be difficult, because the project itself tells you to use the 'attach' wizard, and doesn't display the url directly.

I pulled this out of the home page:

<!--<scheduler>https://denis.usj.es/denisathome_cgi/cgi</scheduler> -->
<link rel="boinc_scheduler" href="https://denis.usj.es/denisathome_cgi/cgi">

but I can't find a master url anywhere. You might have to ask at their forums: http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/forum_index.php

It's just https://denis.usj.es

If you're using BAM! (BOINCStats), it was never delisted there.

It's just https://denis.usj.es

Hmmm. Found it in an fresh 14-day download today, and that says it's http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/, complete with keywords 9 1003 1012

In for a penny, in for a pound - I'll try attaching.

Well, that gave me a clean attach, no error messages - but no tasks available, either.

Edit - looks like the proper way to get the current XML version is to visit https://boinc.berkeley.edu/project_list.php, not any other of the urls I've tried in the past (although they all generated/displayed XML of various vintages)

On Mar 23 I tried attaching to both
https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/
and
https://denis.usj.es/

No errors on attach, work was downloaded and I didn't see anything strange or re-directed in the logs for either URL.
Project admin confirmed that both URL's are valid, and that http versions are re-directed to https.

https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/forum_thread.php?id=160&postid=1387