It looks the same to me ... what is different and what did you want me to add to the Wiki?

Paul,
I think the character positioning is different as far as I can tell from this html rendered informaton. Need to have the .txt file sent to me to be certain....but I was thinking at this point just a note of caution for win 2000 users as it failed for one earlier in this thread. Missed the 1 off the 10 in his default gateway address. Damned DOS string handling functions - they suck!

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I really like it when I am talked about in the third person. Check your email Ian. :)

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Ok, my net is finally back up... My EXTERNAL modem decided to act up and I was unable to check my mail, or the message boards until now...

System: Windows 98 SE
Patches: ALL
Boinc Manager: 4.45
DSL service: MSN DSL
DSL external modem: Actiontec GT701-wg
Firewall: DISABLED

And still am unable to connect to localhost with the Boinc Manager!

If anyone wants a .txt log of my ping/tracert tests, e-mail me at [email protected]
Subject: Boinc

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Don't think this is your problem, but it's something to try.

I've just had the same problem and went through much the same process of blaming the network. However, the unable to connect problem happened immediately following a BSoD casued by the driver for my wireless card. On reboot, I couldn't connect to the localhost but all other Web and LAN connections were fine.

I noticed a message in the Administritive Tools Event Viewer which indicated a problem with some of the NTFS indexes. I got Norton to schedule a disk check and repair and when the system came back up, all was working again.

I had also noticed that a lot of the faulty index entries were BOINC related.

Try scheduling a check of your C: drive, just in case. Crashes aren't the only reason files get corrupted.

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Ok, my net is finally back up... My EXTERNAL modem decided to act up and I was unable to check my mail, or the message boards until now...

Neil, what happens if you go to the command line and type:

ping 127.0.0.1

You should get 4 Reply from... messages. If not, you have a reasonably serious problem with your OS or network card, or your firewall is planning to be a pain in the tail. Then, on the command line, try:

ping localhost

This will probably fail--if it doesn't, verify you're still having the problem with BOINC not connecting to localhost.

If you run a search on all files with hosts in the file name, you should get one or two. The hosts file works just like DNS, if you know what that is, but on a host level. Basically, the hosts file, like DNS is just a way to turn names (people friendly) into numbers/IP addresses (computer friendly). Make sure that both files have entries linking 127.0.0.1 to localhost (proper format for the Windows hosts file is IP address tab name).

If an antivirus, firewall, or antispyware program deleted the hosts file or deleted the localhost entry in the hosts file, you may see these problems... Shout back and let me know what you find out.

(j)
James

yeah i have thesame problem as above, still cant fit it :((

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