| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Support
Forum: Suggestions / Feedback
Thread: Server Availability |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 25
|
|
| Author |
|
|
RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Like the others I don't think it has anything to do with the MS antivirus. It sure sounds to me like a DNS problem. Iff you can get to the alpha geek at the ISP, he can probably solve the problem when he reads this thread.
----------------------------------------Another possibility is your machine itself but it does not sound like that to me. If it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck... And it does sound like a DNS... Regards. edit2. Hey Dave that speakeasy is in dfw (Dallas/Fort Worth). Not many miles from my old homestead.  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by RT at Feb 9, 2005 10:23:18 PM] |
||
|
|
knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
David,
What name are you using to connect to our servers with? In your post you mentioned that you were trying www.wgc.... - can you try using our official name www.worldcommunitygrid.org . Let us know what the results are. A second thing to to try would be the ip address directly. It is 129.33.89.133 . If you still experience the problem, can you trying running the command "tracert www.worldcommunitygrid.org" from a command prompt (assuming you are on a windows system)? Please use Contact Us to send us the results of this command (and background about this thread for reference. Thanks, knreed |
||
|
|
davidhobbs
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Post Count: 152 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
I am using IE6 sp2. Yes I know I should try Firefox and perhaps I will one day when I get time......
But I sort of assume IE6 should be well supported everywhere, and it works fine everywhere else! David. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
This is beginning to sound like the new 'Agent paused after new installation' thread at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=1845 .
|
|||
|
||||
|
davidhobbs
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Post Count: 152 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Thanks for your suggestions.
I'm sorry I probably mis-quoted the web address in my earlier post. I have always followed the links from the agent. It's been better for me (but not as good as I would expect) over the last couple of days, and I have seen no significant delays by the agents when attempting to contact the grid server to upload results and obtain the next work unit. I have seen the thread in the member to member support group about "agent paused" problems, but this doesn't sound quite like my experience. When I next have a problem establishing contact I'll try using the IP address and see if that makes any difference, but I've got to wait for it to go wrong again first! I must write down that IP address on a piece of paper, because when I need it I won't be able to log on and read your post! I've just run tracert, and will send you the result, which seems quite interesting. I seem to have got out of the UK in 7 steps, each timed at roughly 25mS. It all gets much slower (up to 200mS and three timeouts) once I cross the atlantic. Regards, David. |
||
|
|
|