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They're back now. Problem posted elsewhere. However what annoys me is that 
after an extended outage, BOINC may have decided to defer communication with 
the server for several days. The other week the IP address of the proxy for 
one of my PCs got changed, so it lost communication. They did fix it after 
several days, but by that time BOINC had decided there was no point in 
trying to contact the server for 5 days - and there were two days left.

An "update project" would have fixed it, except that I had no opportunity to 
do this. So even though I had a cache of 7 days, I lost about 2 days' work 
on this PC.

So why do they defer communication for progressively longer times?

OT. Why do people who write programs presume that there will be somebody 
there to read message boxes they pop up. The antivirus definitions on one of 
my PCs will expire in a few weeks. So NAV LiveUpdate pops up a box 
"encouraging" me to renew them now. As I'm not there at the time, I don't 
respond. The next day I notice, click on "later" and NAV promptly crashes...

Brian