I am trying to run BOINC as a service and when I do it will not communicate with the project servers. When installed as a regular program it works fine but not when reinstalled as a service.

See below for appropriate Messages from the Log.

When run as a program I get this:

1/26/2011 2:59:19 PM ABC@home update requested by user
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_post(): http://abcathome.com/abc_cgi/cgi
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Connection #0 seems to be dead!
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Closing connection #0
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: timeout on name lookup is not supported
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: About to connect() to abcathome.com port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Trying 132.229.228.47...
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Connected to abcathome.com (132.229.228.47) port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /abc_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 6.10.58)
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: abcathome.com
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 5521
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Expect: 100-continue
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server:
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:19 GMT
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server:
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_xfer_debug] [ID#1] HTTP: wrote 1278 bytes
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_xfer_debug] [ID#1] HTTP: wrote 2723 bytes
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Expire cleared
1/26/2011 2:59:21 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Connection #0 to host abcathome.com left intact

When run as a Service I get this:

1/26/2011 3:06:05 PM ABC@home update requested by user
1/26/2011 3:06:05 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_post(): http://abcathome.com/abc_cgi/cgi
1/26/2011 3:06:05 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle 'C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt'
1/26/2011 3:06:05 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: timeout on name lookup is not supported
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: About to connect() to abcathome.com port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Trying 132.229.228.47...
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Connected to abcathome.com (132.229.228.47) port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /abc_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.0
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 6.10.58)
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: abcathome.com
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Xncoding: deflate, gzip
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 5521
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Expect: 100-continue
1/26/2011 3:06:06 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server:
1/26/2011 3:06:08 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Done waiting for 100-continue
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Operation too slow. Less than 10 bytes/sec transfered the last 300 seconds
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Expire cleared
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Closing connection #0
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] HTTP error: Timeout was reached
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://www.google.com/
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle 'C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt'
1/26/2011 3:11:14 PM [http_debug] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: timeout on name lookup is not supported
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: About to connect() to www.google.com port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: Trying 74.125.159.105...
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: Connected to www.google.com (74.125.159.105) port 80 (#0)
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.0
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 6.10.58)
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.google.com
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Xncoding: deflate, gzip
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
1/26/2011 3:11:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
1/26/2011 3:11:31 PM Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high
1/26/2011 3:11:42 PM Resuming computation
1/26/2011 3:15:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: Expire cleared
1/26/2011 3:15:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: Empty reply from server
1/26/2011 3:15:15 PM [http_debug] [ID#0] Info: Connection #0 to host www.google.com left intact
1/26/2011 3:15:15 PM [http_debug] HTTP error: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
1/26/2011 3:15:16 PM BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.


Your assistance on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

The only thing I can come up with is that you're blocked by a firewall. What kind of firewall are you using?

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I am running CA Internet Security Suite 2010 provided by my ISP. I checked and both Boinc.exe and Boincmgr.exe are allowed through the firewall.

I have investigated this a little further and now know the following:

When I include user "boinc_master" in the "Administrator" security group through the Local Users and Groups function, it works perfectly.

When it is not included in that group, it does not.

Any further assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.

One final comment. I have uninstalled the CA firewall and am now using another one. BOINC is working fine through the new firewall. Thanks for suggesting that as the issue.