Posts by XJR-Maniac

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26297) Posted 27 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: OK, so after all that reading, we're not an inch closer to the answer of my question, why the new client (6.6.36) only shows the NetBIOS name while the old one (5.10.45) shows the complete internet hostname.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26288) Posted 27 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: You could test by setting your computer name to be without dots, using dashes instead. Ahhh, do you know what we're talking about here? Do you even know, what the difference is between NetBIOS and DNS? I can't do what you mentioned because the DNS name is not to be set manually, it is built from NetBIOS name, which is 2k3dc-1, and the primary domain suffix, which is aschy.de. The dots are set automatically. In a DNS name, you can't replace dots by dashes or it is no longer a DNS name! For more information about domain names, please read here: RFC 1034 - Domain names - concepts and facilities.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26285) Posted 27 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: I meant, between what is shown on the project website->your account->your computers and the actual host names of the computers that are affected. e.g. the website says it's CHGR9G77B (NetBIOS name) while your actual host name is Fido (in properties of my computer, computer name). OK, the website and even BoincView say my computer is 2k3dc-1 (NetBIOS), while the computer name in properties of my computer, computer name is 2k3dc-1.aschy.de (DNS) Which project or projects is this on? The DNS issue is affecting all projects because it's a global setting in client_state.xml The only difference between BOINC 5.x and 6.x is that the boinc service is no longer running under system privileges but is now using this special unprivileged user. Could it be possible that this user is not allowed to query the DNS name of the machine? Anyway, it's only a cosmetic issue so it's not worth spending too much energy into further investigations. I was just curious what was the cause of this, but never mind. Thanks for all your replies!
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26239) Posted 24 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: First I have to revise my last statement. I only tried the function "merge hosts by name". When I go to the host itself and click "merge this computer" it shows the one I want to merge with and it works. Now to your questions. Can you check what the actual host name is for the machine(s) affected? I'm not sure if I got you right. Do you mean the host name in the local configuration? If I do a ping -a or a nslookup on the IP-Address of the host, it returns the complete DNS-Name hostname.domain.tld. In the client_state.xml it only reports the host name. I've tried to change it to the DNS name but it will be revised at the next start of BOINC. Can you also check at the projects that the old host didn't make contact with the project(s) after the new hostID was made? The old host and the new one are the same, only the core client changed. I never started the old client since the upgrade. To your penultimate post: This is strange. The code doesn't change, the machine doesn't change, but the result does. This is not logical. But who argues that computers are logical?
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26209) Posted 22 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: At pretty much all projects (not WCG) you can merge devices i.e. get rid of your ghosts. As for this bug, not experienced, but then I use the <suppress_net_info>1</suppress_net_info> cc_config.xml option to hide the DNS-name (User designated name on network) and only show the project assign numeric ID. Merging this hosts does not work. The newer BOINC SW on the server side handle those clients as different hosts, so they can't be merged.
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Urgent! Please revise the german localization of the boinc manager user interface! It hurts so much!!! (Message 26182) Posted 21 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: Go ahead and do it correct: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/translate/ Done!
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Urgent! Please revise the german localization of the boinc manager user interface! It hurts so much!!! (Message 26181) Posted 21 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: Think we need to change it then to hochparterren and runterparterren. Der Duden wird sich im Grab drehen ;D Good one ;-) Some germans have no sense of humor or exaggeration, especially the new ones!
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : DNS problem in BOINC 6.6.36? (Message 26134) Posted 20 Jul 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: I just upgraded one of my machines to BOINC 6.6.36 because I want to use CUDA and now it doesn't use the DNS-name of the machine when it communicates with the projects or the BOINC manager, it only uses the NetBios name. Before the upgrade I used v5.10.45 and everything was fine. Due to that on all projects attached to this machine, a new computer object is created. OK, it's not a drama but it will screw up the statistics by creating another ghost machine to my stats. Is this a bug of the core client or by design? Or do I have to change something in my TCP/IP config? The machine is running on W2k3 Enterprise Server with SP2. Thank you!
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Urgent! Please revise the german localization of the boinc manager user interface! It hurts so much!!! (Message 25032) Posted 25 May 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: Just after 5 years of agony it's time to make a change! When I first installed BOINC on my computers and changed the GUI language to german, it hit me like a fist right in the face! The german translation of "downloading" and "uploading" was "AM HERUNTERLADEN" and "AM HOCHLADEN"!!! So the first thing I did was to start my HEX-Editor and search for this rape of the german language and terminate it by some key strokes. But after all this years of pain and agony, I think it's time to raise my voice to have it changed as soon as possible. This is such a bad translation that it really hurts you to the bone. So please, please, please change the german translation of "downloading" from "AM HERUNTERLADEN" (autsch) to "HERUNTERLADEND" and "uploading" from "AM HOCHLADEN" (autsch again!) to "HOCHLADEND". Because I think that the BOINC platform is to be used by reasonably intelligent people, I think it's not asked too much to use the right translations. If this is the wrong forum for localization issues, please move it to the right one! Thank you!
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : merge or delete hosts (Message 23904) Posted 25 Mar 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: ...If I click details, it tells me "Host xxxx has overlapping lifetime (16 Feb 2009 - 24 Mar 2009), (2 Mar 2009 - 23 Mar 2009)". Wie haste dat denn hingekriegt? :-) Just to throw some light on this miracle I'm gonna explain but it's a little bit complicated. I run BOINC on my test PCs at my office, too. But our company has a firewall, so BOINC projects cannot connect their servers for down- and uploads. For this reason I have to "preload" some clients, set them to NNW and NN and carry them to my office to run them on my test PCs. If the WU is finished, or for CPDN to send trickles and finished decades, I take them back home and let them report. That is the reason for my multiple duplicate hosts. It's not such a big problem. This way it nearly reflects the real number of hosts I use at home and at my office, e.g. at BOINCSTATS or similar stats sites. Of course, they have overlapping lifetime. They have been created about the same time! I think this message is a little bit stupid, isn't it? I don't think so. Normally, duplicate host entries are generated when you install a new version of BOINC, so the first one's lifetime should end exactly where the other's begins. So, what is this silly merge thing good for, if I can't merge any kind of duplicate hosts? Any ideas about that? Sorry, not for your case, but it works for others. OK, if there is no way to merge this hosts, what if I delete the duplicates and leave only the presently active one? Will the credits of the deleted duplicates be added to the remaining one after some days or are they lost? I know that they aren't lost for the project, but if they are lost for the host, the sum of all hosts will differ from the project totals and I don't like that... No, the credits will not be added to other hosts, but they will remain with your account (XJR-Maniac) on each project. Gruß, Gundolf
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : merge or delete hosts (Message 23881) Posted 24 Mar 2009 by XJR-Maniac Post: Hi, on some projects I have duplicate hosts for some reason and it's impossible to merge them. If I try "Merge computers by name", I receive the following error message: "Can't merge host xxxx into xxxx - they're incompatible". If I go to one of those hosts and click "Merge this computer", the message is "No hosts are eligible for merging with this one". If I click details, it tells me "Host xxxx has overlapping lifetime (16 Feb 2009 - 24 Mar 2009), (2 Mar 2009 - 23 Mar 2009)". Of course, they have overlapping lifetime. They have been created about the same time! I think this message is a little bit stupid, isn't it? So, what is this silly merge thing good for, if I can't merge any kind of duplicate hosts? Any ideas about that? OK, if there is no way to merge this hosts, what if I delete the duplicates and leave only the presently active one? Will the credits of the deleted duplicates be added to the remaining one after some days or are they lost? I know that they aren't lost for the project, but if they are lost for the host, the sum of all hosts will differ from the project totals and I don't like that. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

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