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rogue_jedi

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some background:
my boxen (except a borg or five:p) are all behind the squid http/1.0 proxy. stanford updated their servers to send a http/1.1 response with some information in the header when a unit (or contact at all) was requested. squid, being http/1.0, couldn't deal properly with this, and merely truncated the headers. works for most stuff, except, obviously, F@H. without the stuff in the header, the F@H client interprets it as a miss or 'connection failed.' so i've been without.. um.. 6ghz+a school for a week or three.

now on to the (hopefully) good part:
my main box just got a unit... p1803_Collagen_POG10_refolding.

2.4ghz is folding once more... i hope this is permanent. i haven't checked to see if the other boxen here at home are back up.

this is very :cool: if it is actually working again...

/me pleads with gods of F@H that it is actually fixed and this isn't a fluke/

anyways, this should help me (and maybe some other people) out. me especially... now i can go re-b0rg that school (it should get me back up to 1.5k-2k ppd) :cool:
 
Are you forced to use squid?


Keep on Folding!!

 
OSUguy98 said:
Are you forced to use squid?
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Yep, dad has a proxy machine between us and the world. It runs squid and does QoS and neat stuff like that. It'd be fairly convenient, if it weren't the only option (hello, port forwarding!).

And I don't administer it or it'd a) not be running squid and b) be broken by now :rolleyes: It's better than the alternative (no internet).
 
Have you talked to him about the problem(s) with squid? is he anti-F@H? I guess what I'm asking is: Is there an alternative that he'll consider using?


Keep on Folding!!

 
So it sounds like it's set as a transparent proxy forcing all port 80 traffic through. This is good for me to hear because I was considering going this same route on my home network. I've been running squid for almost two months and have all my browser's set to use it but my folding clients are set to not use the browser's settings. That must explain why everything's still working fine and dandy for me.

Is it possible that the latest squid (v3. or something) would work? I'm running 2.5.x

Also, I'm not sure if it'd matter but would there be a difference in FAH clients as a workaround (update to the latest and greatest)?
 
No, it's intentionally non-transparent. One must set the "proxy" settings in browser, FAH, whatever wants to use the internet. It's for 2 reasons: anti-virus and anti-porn. He figures if we have to tell it where the proxy is, the viruses won't be smart enough to get to it and do bad stuff. I think you can figure out why anti-porn :rolleyes: .

Bait-fish: you don't want to have a transparent proxy set up. We had this at one point, and it was completely buggy and unhelpful. Squid 3.0 has a bug report which, if it gets implemented, will (hopefully) fix squid wrt FAH, but 2.5 has no such bugreport or pending fix. We're running 2.5stable8. It seems that the trouble is that Stanford updated their servers, and as a result they send HTTP/1.1 stuff. Squid only knows 1.0, so it gives an error. You might want to give Polipo a try, I understand it allows 1.1.

As to why so anti-FAH, dad works with computers all day and he doesn't want to have to mess with the ones at home too, so he just leaves them alone for the most part. Unfortunately, this leaves us with nobody with the root password willing to do anything when stuff breaks. I am glad I installed the family winXP machine or it'd be falling to pieces from disrepair by now. I can understand his viewpoint, just I wish he didn't have it. Oh well. I gotta have something to rebel against, right?
 
that's what coral is for...

anyways.
Code: 
[08:06:22] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[08:06:24] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[08:06:24] Sending work to server


[08:06:24] + Attempting to send results
[08:06:45] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:06:45] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[08:06:45]     (171.65.103.158:8080)
[08:06:45] - Error: Could not transmit unit 03 (completed March 1) to work server.
[08:06:45]   Keeping unit 03 in queue.


[08:06:45] + Attempting to send results
[08:07:06] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:07:06] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[08:07:06]     (171.65.103.158:8080)
[08:07:06] - Error: Could not transmit unit 03 (completed March 1) to work server.


[08:07:06] + Attempting to send results
[08:07:27] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:07:27] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[08:07:27]     (171.65.103.100:8080)
[08:07:27]   Could not transmit unit 03 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[08:07:27] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[08:07:27] + Attempting to get work packet
[08:07:27] - Connecting to assignment server
[08:07:48] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:07:48] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[08:08:09] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:08:09] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[08:08:09] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[08:08:09] - Error: Attempt #1  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.
that should explain it:( it's as if it is just skipping squid altogether or something... but it says it is using the right proxy at the top of the log file (not included) sucks, though...

can you send FAH through port 5190/2401/FTP? cause if you can... hehe;)

o well, back to looking at polipo so my dad won't do anything about it:rolleyes:
 
Damn :(

Thanks for the tip on polipo and the warning about squid. My intention is to make things better here, not worse. One of my objectives was to filter out ads/adservers and such as well as making it more difficult for crapware to get out.

I see Polipo's good for Ubuntu (my first/only *nix) machine. Definitely will be looking into this one.

So, call me daft but I take it you're bro's in the same house? :cool:
 
Bait-Fish said:
Damn :(

Thanks for the tip on polipo and the warning about squid. My intention is to make things better here, not worse. One of my objectives was to filter out ads/adservers and such as well as making it more difficult for crapware to get out.

I see Polipo's good for Ubuntu (my first/only *nix) machine. Definitely will be looking into this one.

So, call me daft but I take it you're bro's in the same house? :cool:
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Check out the adblock extension and filterset-G. Quite the pairing there.

Good luck with polipo. I mailed the author about a tachnical question a while ago and he was nice and helpful.

Yep, /me downstairs and him upstairs. (edit: check the locations :D)
 
Heh, upstairs/downstairs is what clued me in ;)

Adblock and FiltersetG have been favs of mine for a while now too. I was just hoping to be able to clamp the network at a central point so it'd be easier for me to keep updated rather than running around to all my machines. Plus I don't have access to one, a neighbor we let share our connection (who I need to urge into FAH as a repayment for our kindness :cool: )
 
You could run the filtering proxy on some other port, but also let normal traffic through on 80. That way a) FAH can get through and b) you still get adfiltering c) if a page displays wroung with the filters there's an easy way to turn them off. My suggestion, anyways.
 
does FAH use port 80 or 8080?

of course, you could run squid, and make your neighbor switch to that... then leave port 80/8080 open anyways to let FAH through. or run your filtering proxy, then run polipo on another port to let FAH get through. you could then only allow access to the servers on the stanford subnet/FAH list through polipo (u_m can tell you more about how to set that up, i'm sure)

good luck, whatever you do.

if your neighbor is intent on using your internet, that means he's on your subnet... get one of those network-borgers. problem solved:D
 
well, it now seems that stanford fixed some of their servers... mine still hasn't returned the unit (AFAIK) but one of the mini-garden downstairs has gotten a new one...

we'll see what happens. hopefully it gets fixed all the way soon.
 
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