staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

1999-01-13

decibel [13-Jan-1999 @ 12:34]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 12:34 +00:00

:: 13-Jan-1999 12:45 (Wednesday) ::

I’ve talked to our coders about the problems some users have been having with
connecting to the proxy network. If you are getting a ‘Fetch::Bad request’
message, then the proxy is either out of DES blocks, or your http proxy switched
servers during the middle of the transmission. If you get this message during
flush, then it’s simply a proxy problem. Make sure you’re using the closest
possible round-robbin (euro80 or us80 for example), or as a last case effort,
try using a specific proxy that’s close to you.

If you are seeing other network errors, _and_ you can pin them down (when the
errors occur, what the error message is, what your current config is, what
affect different config settings have, etc.), then please email info to
rc5help@distributed.net.

Of course, for _any_ bug reports, make sure and include your actual version
number. ‘The latest client’ could be any client…

For you depressed stats mongers ;), Nugget has gotten most of the log files into
the stats-box, but they haven’t been audited yet.