BrianW wrote:

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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

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So why do they defer communication for progressively longer times?

It's called exponential back-off. The idea is that it avoids giving the server a Denial-Of-Service attack as more and more clients time out and try to 'phone home'.

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...

Just one of the penalties of marketing driven sloppy programming.

(And viruses simply cannot exist in the first place on other OSes. No 'antivirus' kludges needed.)


Good luck,
Martin