In article <5sidnYFYE--sioreRVn-1Q@comcast.com>, Claude Ortega
<cjortega11@comcast.net> writes

Oh for the record, the laptop was OK before the outrage, and nothing has
been changed in my preferences or BOINC Manager :-((
-- 
John Clark

It would seem to be a problem with DNS. Check the TCP/IP setup, firewall ( 
if any ), and general network access.

My 4 PCs share the same ADSL link, and they are OK. 

It cannot be a firewall, as the Laptop has none (software) and I depend
on the hardware firewall in the router, which also acts as a DCHP server
to the PCs on the LAN.

However, shutting down and rebooting a while later (typical Windows
solution) sorted it out. Most of the cached WUs have downloaded, and the
machine is crunching. Why I do not know.

Had I been running a firewall, and the rest of the farm was OK (except
for returning results), then I would have blamed it and shut it down.
-- 
John Clark