www.ibm.com resolves to 129.42.58.216

If your computer attempts to make a communication with the World Community Grid and that connection fails for some reason, it will then attempt to make a request to a different server to validate internet connectivity (in order to determine if World Community Grid is down or whether the computer does not currently have access to the internet). The default BOINC client from Berkeley will communicate with www.google.com. We have modified this to check against www.ibm.com.

This is what is happening when you see this line in your log file:

14-May-2009 19:57:36 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
14-May-2009 19:57:36 [World Community Grid] Temporarily failed download of dddt.13.dat.gzb: HTTP error
14-May-2009 19:57:36 [World Community Grid] Backing off 1 hr 9 min 36 sec on download of dddt.13.dat.gzb
14-May-2009 19:59:33 [---] Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Reference Site = www.ibm.com
Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. = Communications with www.ibm.com were ok - the problem exists with communication to World Community Grid servers.

Can you please add the following to your cc_config.xml log file:

<file_xfer_debug>1</file_xfer_debug>
<http_debug>1</http_debug>
<http_xfer_debug>1</http_xfer_debug>

I'd like to see what is going on with that file transfer. These additional logging options will add a lot more detail to what is going on.

thanks,
Kevin