Subject: Re: SETI-BOINC running but lacking connections
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 31/08/2005, 13:57
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

John wrote:
[...]
Like you I am getting a trickle, but the results completed during the
outrage, then local network shutdown, still await uploading. Probably
like you.

I think my experience of the delay in uploading completed results, and
the Server Status showing no work awaiting validation, may indicate
another Berkeley side problem exists? :-((

I think that that is more suspiciously networking or protocols issues, or an overload on the maximum number of simultaneous connections.

There are more handshaking steps required for uploading a result, so there is a greater chance there for failure or timeouts. Downloading is simpler and so those have a better chance to get through the DDOS attack from a few hundred thousand WU hungry users all trying to phone home!


It will be interesting to hear what the devs find!

Regards,
Martin

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