Everyone Having Connection Problems

[Ploaf]

Here is something that was posted in the FAH Yahoo forum. It 'sort of' addresses this issue and it doesn't seem that there is a fix just yet. There may be a problem with blocked IP's for some, then again maybe not. Here the messages -

From: vijay@f...
Date: Fri Nov 9, 2001 1:13 am
Subject: Re: !!!!! (was : stanford down since 24H ?)


Stanford is pretty serious about security, but it's not crazy. It's
my understanding that for scanning, first they contact the ISP. If
the ISP refuses to do anything about it, then, as a last resort, the
block the scanner.

I'm sorry that you guys are caught up in it. We're exploring
possibilities to fix this.

Vijay


> http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-ccs/security/news/filters.html
> (cannot read that from my computer)
>

> and that because one guy tryed to scan stanford's network ...
>
> I can't believe it ... it look like a joke, but i can't get it :/
>
> Vijay ... i don't like the idea to use a proxy, can you give some
> help please ?
>
> rotoutou - alliance francophone
>
> --- In folding2@y..., vijay@f... wrote:
> > That's weird. My guess is that it's not my group's machines, but
> > Stanford's ISP.
> >
> > Vijay
> >
> >
> > --- In folding2@y..., benoit@b... wrote:
> > > --- In folding2@y..., ryan113@c... wrote:
> > > > you wouldn't happen to be on a dial up, would you?
> > > >
> > > > same thing is happening to me on my machines with dial up
> > accounts,
> > > >
> > > > the machines on the lan are working just fine.
> > >
> > > yes, at home i have ADSL connection, and i cannot fold since 2
> days
> > > (cannot upload results, download WU or create new client (AS
> server
> > > not responding)), and here at work, with lan connection, all
seems
> > to
> > > work fine ...
> > >
> > > rotoutou - alliance francophone

[Ploaf]

Also found this message from some people having connection problems. Not sure if any of this will help. They restarted everything completely fresh. ie.. nothing was left over from the previous version of the client.

From: ojona101@h...
Date: Fri Nov 9, 2001 4:26 am
Subject: Re: Some Success - Good work Vijay and crew


Same here, re-installed the client. Did a few x-ing on the dos box.
Re-startedd the client a few times 4x. Task manager stated 25% cpu
usage on each core_25. Did a hard reboot, went back to last frame.
Now we will see if the server will accept it.

Also the error msg with ASP is now gone.

BTW using no nonsense 2.12 dos console version with W2K Pro.

e

--- In folding2@y..., james.uschy@s... wrote:
> I deleted everything from my machine to do with Folding
> (even from the registry) and downloaded the latest console.
> Upon starting up it asked for my user name and team #
> then got an ID# from the server, downloaded the core
> and started folding. You will notice it got the ID#
> right away without having to restart.
> I ctrl-c'ed it and it restarted from checkpoint.
> This machine was unable to checkpoint earlier.
> I even shut it down "dirty" by X-ing it. I went and
> shut down the core with task manager, restarted folding
> and it did restart from checkpoint. So far, so good...
>
> Now I just have to wait and see if it can upload ok...
> maybe my ISP has been banned by Stanford...?
> ILS.NET
> This machine hasn't been able to upload for a couple
> of weeks.
>
> Happy Folding
> James & Uschy

[Ploaf]

Here's a link to another thread that dealt with some of the connection problems as well. There was only partial success in that thread.
http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43801