Hi

I know rosetta*.exe sometimes attempts to connect to the 'net directly for error reporting, but this causes me a problem because Zonealarm blocks the connection and awaits my input, without a new task being started and so lost crunching time. I always allow these requests but obviously there are new versions of Rosetta out quite regularly and so it's the same problem every time.

I guess the easiest fix is to allow any outbound connections to the bakerlab's IP range, but that isn't always where rosetta is trying to connect to - not sure why???

So far the ZA log shows it's tried to connect to:

75.126.120.197 (Avast which I use)
84.53.178.11 (Ripe net???)

Not sure why these are listed?

Anyway, what IP range should I allow outbound connections to to stop the prompts?

cheers
Danny

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Can you just have the firewall always deny (without user input)? If it crashes repeatedly, you could just post the problem and specific task in the "Problems with Rosetta x.xx" thread. No BOINC client science application should need direct internet access; that's definitely a design liberty that the developers took.

I sent Rom Walton an email. He is the one who developed the symbol store code for error reporting for boinc applications. It's the boinc windows debugging framework that is accessing the internet for a symbol store. All windows boinc science apps have the option to do this to help with debugging.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppDebugWin#ApplicationdebuggingonWindows

Hi

I know rosetta*.exe sometimes attempts to connect to the 'net directly for error reporting, but this causes me a problem because Zonealarm blocks the connection and awaits my input, without a new task being started and so lost crunching time. I always allow these requests but obviously there are new versions of Rosetta out quite regularly and so it's the same problem every time.

I guess the easiest fix is to allow any outbound connections to the bakerlab's IP range, but that isn't always where rosetta is trying to connect to - not sure why???

So far the ZA log shows it's tried to connect to:

75.126.120.197 (Avast which I use)
84.53.178.11 (Ripe net???)

Not sure why these are listed?

Anyway, what IP range should I allow outbound connections to to stop the prompts?

cheers
Danny

I saw this and copied it. I hope it helps.
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ICS Settings:
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On the gateway machine, do the following.
Click start -> run, type cmd and click ok.
Type ipconfig /all and press enter.
Find the connection you are using, and make note of all the DNS servers.
Type exit and press enter.

Double-click the ZA icon down by the clock.
Click firewall -> main, and click the advanced button.
Put the check in "this computer is an ICS/NAT gateway", and click ok.
Click firewall -> zones.

Add each DNS server to the trusted zone. To do this, do the following.
Click the add button, and then click IP address.
Click trusted, put in the IP address, enter a description, and click ok.
When finished adding all addresses, click the apply button.

Next, click program control -> programs. Locate Generic Host Processing.
Under the server column, for trusted, change that to a check.
Don't change server internet to a check, just server trusted.

If you have ZoneAlarm on the other computers, do the following.
Click the ZA icon down by the clock.
Click firewall -> main, and click the advanced button.
Put the check in "this computer is a client of an ICS/NAT gateway", and click ok.
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Also double check to be absolutely sure you have the correct IP of the client machine in the Trusted zone. It may be different than before, so do an ipconfig/all command prompt.

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Jmarks

Can you just have the firewall always deny (without user input)? If it crashes repeatedly, you could just post the problem and specific task in the "Problems with Rosetta x.xx" thread. No BOINC client science application should need direct internet access; that's definitely a design liberty that the developers took.

I can for each rosetta version but every time there's a new one out it'll ask me again unless i get in first and set the permission manually...

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Here is Rom's response:

To be honest I don't know what the IP ranges would be,
http://downloads.microsoft.com/symbols can point to a number of
different places, it all depends on how many cache servers Microsoft is
using.

----- Rom


It seems like the only option is to turn off the symbol store debugging which may be okay now since there aren't any outstanding general bugs but we may need it later.