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Message 8908 - Posted: 3 Apr 2025, 19:06:54 UTC
Tried to add the project, but the animation with the green dot going between the 2 computers went on for about a minute, before it said "failed to add project".
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Message 9250 - Posted: 7 Oct 2025, 21:42:11 UTC - in response to Message 8908.  

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First post!

I have noticed this issue as well but only with older versions of BOINC (7.14 and 7.16) with new installs of 8.24 it can attach without issue. Does anyone know why this is?
Thank you!
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Message 9251 - Posted: 9 Oct 2025, 0:38:27 UTC - in response to Message 9250.  
First post!

I have noticed this issue as well but only with older versions of BOINC (7.14 and 7.16) with new installs of 8.24 it can attach without issue. Does anyone know why this is?
Thank you!

More than likely you need to update to a newer BOINC VERSION if your computer is running Windows 7 or newer. Download and install the latest version from here.

If you are running Windows XP or VISTA you can't update BOINC past version 7.16.20 you can download and install the ca-bundle.crt file from here.

Instructions on how to update the certificate are found at Using older versions of BOINC.

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Message 9252 - Posted: 9 Oct 2025, 6:45:08 UTC - in response to Message 9251.  
First post!

I have noticed this issue as well but only with older versions of BOINC (7.14 and 7.16) with new installs of 8.24 it can attach without issue. Does anyone know why this is?
Thank you!

More than likely you need to update to a newer BOINC VERSION if your computer is running Windows 7 or newer. Download and install the latest version from here.

If you are running Windows XP or VISTA you can't update BOINC past version 7.16.20 you can download and install the ca-bundle.crt file from here.

Instructions on how to update the certificate are found at Using older versions of BOINC.


This worked perfectly! Thank you!
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Message 9325 - Posted: 20 Dec 2025, 14:56:32 UTC - in response to Message 9250.  
First post!

I have noticed this issue as well but only with older versions of BOINC (7.14 and 7.16) with new installs of 8.24 it can attach without issue. Does anyone know why this is?
Thank you!


I'm having the same problem of not being able to (re)add Asteroids.

Apple M1 Max
Tahoe 26.2
BOINC Manager 8.2.8

Failed to add project. Please try again later.
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Message 9326 - Posted: 20 Dec 2025, 16:49:06 UTC
It might be a certificate issue, but both Tahoe 26.2 and BOINC 8.2.8 are quite recent. In any case, something is clearly blocking your connection to the server. Have you tried adding other projects?
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Message 9327 - Posted: 20 Dec 2025, 16:56:33 UTC
Maybe the DNS cache hasn’t been updated?
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Sry, but without any error logs, it’s difficult to provide any relevant advice...
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Message 9328 - Posted: 20 Dec 2025, 21:59:35 UTC - in response to Message 9326.  

Last modified: 20 Dec 2025, 22:00:20 UTC
Yes, I successfully added Amicable Numbers today.

Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Connection 110 seems to be dead
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: shutting down connection #110
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Connection 111 seems to be dead
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: shutting down connection #111
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Host asteroidsathome.net:443 was resolved.
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: IPv6: (none)
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: IPv4: 195.113.29.201
Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Trying 195.113.29.201:443...
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, unknown CA (560):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: closing connection #112
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] HTTP error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://www.google.com/
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Host www.google.com:443 was resolved.
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv6: (none)
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv4: 142.250.191.164
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 142.250.191.164:443...
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL reusing session with ALPN 'http/1.1'
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / X25519 / UNDEF
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Server certificate:
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subject: CN=www.google.com
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: start date: Dec 3 15:57:20 2025 GMT
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: expire date: Feb 25 15:57:19 2026 GMT
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subjectAltName: host "www.google.com" matched cert's "www.google.com"
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Google Trust Services; CN=WR2
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL certificate verify ok.
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Established connection to www.google.com (142.250.191.164 port 443) from 10.0.0.61 port 56308
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: using HTTP/1.x
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.google.com
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (arm64-apple-darwin 8.2.8)
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_US
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Request completely sent off
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:55:55 GMT
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: -1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-dYIEonJDrsnfoXaOLdSMWA' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Accept-CH: Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: gws
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-XSS-Protection: 0
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-STRP=AD6DogsJR_07XFfY8bj9eSy-AFa1ig2OIS5TieHI59EywCINnsnM9aHD0wR0IAKPdcGs98LlKqPZXk3SsDxILqhBjWfiEYLulqLj; expires=Sat, 20-Dec-2025 22:00:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; SameSite=strict
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: AEC=AaJma5temLqMLppd5b-3KOQEF7iIe4PJrThDBc13YQ3o7ifn522_BzDKng; expires=Thu, 18-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=lax
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: NID=527=dJFLiAlUqbAdR1MXT3vKihTkpsJynHUZcZUMmkIJyY4G7GgF3a0tlFId_mV6C-BVAtP80Zb-K5RihGvmvrrbRObXNQI0pPO-wyT4S9Govv9x_yp7xAIa0LIJ3j9FQV0dS51ZJkdzmLPXcq4RzSo4i3gEmb5VL0oimk5-_1aKoAh42ISGLrFaPBCc-PoqdoJq9GT6Grq78SEvjJUjCZzkiMK4W0jgg02NkHLSpA; expires=Sun, 21-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-BUCKET=CMMH; expires=Thu, 18-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1897 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1253 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 172 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2838 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3382 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3442 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3993 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4105 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4531 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4868 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4181 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4489 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3882 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 7386 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 5287 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3140 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3957 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3998 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2300 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1279 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3967 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2559 bytes
Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connection #113 to host www.google.com:443 left intact
Sat Dec 20 15:55:56 2025 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
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Message 9345 - Posted: 30 Dec 2025, 6:44:17 UTC
I am also having this issue for months with multiple Mac machines:

Both are MacOS 10.15.7 with BOINC 8.2.8
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Message 9358 - Posted: 4 Jan 2026, 0:02:29 UTC
Since your system does not recognize or trust the server’s certificate, it refuses to communicate with it.

BOINC 7.18.0+ on macOS should use system certificates, which should be upgradable via system updates.
brew update
brew reinstall ca-certificates

I don’t have a Mac, so it would be helpful if someone who is affected could confirm whether this fixes the issue.

There is also an open BOINC issue to make the error message more informative, as it currently makes it look like the project is down when it isn’t.
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/6613
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Message 9377 - Posted: 17 Jan 2026, 4:19:19 UTC - in response to Message 9326.  
I am having this problem too. I recently had to reformat and reinstall 10.15.7 on an older Mac I've been using for BOINC for over 10 years. I reinstalled BOINC, and have been able to add Einstein@home, LHC@home, and Rosetta@home with no issues. I cannot get Asteroids@home to add. The error is "Failed to add project. Please try again later." The log has the following:
Fri Jan 16 23:11:06 2026 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php
Fri Jan 16 23:11:07 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Fri Jan 16 23:11:08 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
I have Asteroids@home running on another computer (side by side) with no issues. I even removed and added Asteroids@home to see if there was an issue adding the project on the other computer, but no issues. I have uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC, various versions going back to 7.16.11 with the same failure resulting. Can someone point me in a direction to troubleshoot this? I'm no computer novice, have been working with Mac since the mid 80s.
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Message 9378 - Posted: 17 Jan 2026, 4:50:40 UTC - in response to Message 9377.  

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I tried adding the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data". That had no effect. I noticed that there was no BOINC related file in the user's "~/Library/Application Support/" directory on the other computer where everything is normal. but there IS a BOINC file in the "~/Library/Application Support/" on the computer having a problem. I tried copying the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "~/Library/Application Support/" directory and restarted Boinc Manager. That worked, and I was able to add the project successfully, thanks to re-reading the earlier messages in this thread, specifically, Message 9252.
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Message 9398 - Posted: 7 Feb 2026, 14:09:16 UTC - in response to Message 9378.  

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I tried adding the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data". That had no effect. I noticed that there was no BOINC related file in the user's "~/Library/Application Support/" directory on the other computer where everything is normal. but there IS a BOINC file in the "~/Library/Application Support/" on the computer having a problem. I tried copying the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "~/Library/Application Support/" directory and restarted Boinc Manager. That worked, and I was able to add the project successfully, thanks to re-reading the earlier messages in this thread, specifically, Message 9252.

I don't think I have this option with a Mac (OS Tahoe 26.2, BOINCManager 8.2.8).
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Message 9497 - Posted: 25 Apr 2026, 14:30:57 UTC
I am experiencing the same issue. Does anyone have any other ideas?
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Message 9502 - Posted: 29 Apr 2026, 18:08:25 UTC - in response to Message 9378.  
I tried that too, it didn't work. I'm on mac os sonoma 14.8.5 on M2 mac mini and boinc is version 8.2.9.

st 29 dub 20:03:53 2026 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php
st 29 dub 20:03:53 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
st 29 dub 20:03:54 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
st 29 dub 20:04:05 2026 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php
st 29 dub 20:04:06 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
st 29 dub 20:04:07 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Other projects like primegrid and einstein works fine.
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Message 9505 - Posted: 3 May 2026, 17:25:01 UTC - in response to Message 9502.  
The problem is DEFINITELY ON THE Asteroids PROJECT SERVER SIDE as determined by the BOINC software maintainers.
AenBleid wrote on the problem linked below:
(BOINC/boinc#6987)
This is the issue on the server side.
Contact admin, send them the log and ask to fix the certificate chain.
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Message 9506 - Posted: 4 May 2026, 7:24:52 UTC - in response to Message 9505.  

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The problem is DEFINITELY ON THE Asteroids PROJECT SERVER SIDE as determined by the BOINC software maintainers.
AenBleid wrote on the problem linked below:
(BOINC/boinc#6987)
This is the issue on the server side.
Contact admin, send them the log and ask to fix the certificate chain.


I had this response from AenBleid yesterday as well.
Below is from my log file with http debug info from Boinc 8.2.9 on macOs Tahoe 26.4.1.
Which is the file AenBleid used to get his answer from.

Everything was working well on Boinc 8.2.4 on Mac M4 with Tahoe and Mac intel Sonoma. Trouble started with the upgrade to 8.2.8.

My Freebsd machine is unaffected for asteroids on Boinc 8.2.8. It only seems to affect the Macs.

Hope this is helpful.


Sun 3 May 19:02:59 2026 | Asteroids@home | update requested by user
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/notices.php?userid=108939&auth=108939_65bf35a3ca3a27cd35d297c4297d4c9f
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Too old connection (622483 ms idle, max idle is 118000 ms), disconnect it
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connection 16 seems to be dead
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: shutting down connection #16
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Host asteroidsathome.net:80 was resolved.
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv6: (none)
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv4: 195.113.29.201
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 195.113.29.201:80...
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Established connection to asteroidsathome.net (195.113.29.201 port 80) from 192.168.0.189 port 58061
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: using HTTP/1.x
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /boinc/notices.php?userid=108939&auth=108939_65bf35a3ca3a27cd35d297c4297d4c9f HTTP/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: asteroidsathome.net
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (arm64-apple-darwin 8.2.9)
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_AU
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
Sun 3 May 19:03:00 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Request completely sent off
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: date: Sun, 03 May 2026 09:33:01 GMT
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: server: Apache/2.4.65 (Debian)
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: location: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/notices.php?userid=108939&auth=108939_65bf35a3ca3a27cd35d297c4297d4c9f
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: content-length: 401
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Ignoring the response-body
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: setting size while ignoring
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connection #17 to host asteroidsathome.net:80 left intact
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Clear auth, redirects to port from 80 to 443
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Issue another request to this URL: 'https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/notices.php?userid=108939&auth=108939_65bf35a3ca3a27cd35d297c4297d4c9f'
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Host asteroidsathome.net:443 was resolved.
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv6: (none)
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv4: 195.113.29.201
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 195.113.29.201:443...
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, unknown CA (560):
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: closing connection #18
Sun 3 May 19:03:01 2026 | | [http] HTTP error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | Fetching scheduler list
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Hostname asteroidsathome.net was found in DNS cache
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Trying 195.113.29.201:443...
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:03 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, unknown CA (560):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] [ID#1] Info: closing connection #19
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | [http] HTTP error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://www.google.com/
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler list fetch from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ failed: transient HTTP error
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Host www.google.com:443 was resolved.
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv6: (none)
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv4: 142.251.150.119, 142.251.154.119, 142.251.153.119, 142.251.155.119, 142.251.152.119, 142.251.156.119, 142.251.151.119, 142.251.157.119
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 142.251.150.119:443...
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL reusing session with ALPN 'http/1.1'
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / X25519 / UNDEF
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Server certificate:
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subject: CN=www.google.com
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: start date: Apr 8 05:20:28 2026 GMT
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: expire date: Jul 1 05:20:27 2026 GMT
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subjectAltName: host "www.google.com" matched cert's "www.google.com"
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Google Trust Services; CN=WR2
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL certificate verify ok.
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Established connection to www.google.com (142.251.150.119 port 443) from 192.168.0.189 port 58064
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: using HTTP/1.x
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.1
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.google.com
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (arm64-apple-darwin 8.2.9)
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_AU
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Request completely sent off
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Sun, 03 May 2026 09:33:04 GMT
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: -1
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-Z4Tum-9WYUjOKXGBKrAl9A' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Accept-CH: Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: gws
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-XSS-Protection: 0
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-STRP=AEEP7gLkjq4tVczEyYDEmrFvbA6JEB4b2Ps_9WWksETjjjXZ2YcaS-pHKU7ux1zFpwGEaao0ewA_zqIPNbooigwEJt7KtIk0Mp9j; expires=Sun, 03-May-2026 09:38:04 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; SameSite=strict
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: AEC=AaJma5tU3LMMA6AIxHDFO7UljBF0HmDgdDHd8W0cUIvHSKCV6f7tu9oLVg; expires=Fri, 30-Oct-2026 09:33:04 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=lax
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: NID=531=HuIjOwk5g4fBKLCVwjcMK0rVYW0Nf3EV2JN7hkgz6Y-7J-vOGpji3YPeR41SSs9tKNqTANL6EojhP5qAu7VHYS8NhABmMeDl2IW8EC7ivP0Sc_gLExUD1GrTHtJO0nI3oq44vGa85JVdPbs5GRESROGkN0kHcTUacRaj7lhtZA7f3bNRgkWCJpEfC7GUSFRNTVaUkyQO9QnfXsdVDB2vQn8ReeLRzLn_bg; expires=Mon, 02-Nov-2026 09:33:04 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-BUCKET=CNMG; expires=Fri, 30-Oct-2026 09:33:04 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2282 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 998 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 6 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 7 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 239 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 5 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2825 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3429 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3480 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4104 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4423 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4081 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 5342 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4314 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4292 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3844 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 7121 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 6131 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 63 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3292 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3918 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3912 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2768 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 693 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4174 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3518 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 223 bytes
Sun 3 May 19:03:04 2026 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connection #20 to host www.google.com:443 left intact
Sun 3 May 19:03:05 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
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Message 9507 - Posted: 4 May 2026, 7:39:06 UTC - in response to Message 9358.  
Since your system does not recognize or trust the server’s certificate, it refuses to communicate with it.

BOINC 7.18.0+ on macOS should use system certificates, which should be upgradable via system updates.
brew update
brew reinstall ca-certificates

I don’t have a Mac, so it would be helpful if someone who is affected could confirm whether this fixes the issue.

There is also an open BOINC issue to make the error message more informative, as it currently makes it look like the project is down when it isn’t.
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/6613


I tried this with Apples' keychain app which is apparently the way this works now, but there wasn't any change with asteroids server access.

See my other reply for debug http log.

output from curl -v
% /usr/bin/curl -v https://asteroidsathome.net
* Host asteroidsathome.net:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 195.113.29.201
* Trying 195.113.29.201:443...
* Connected to asteroidsathome.net (195.113.29.201) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256 / [blank] / UNDEF
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: C=CZ; ST=Hlavn� m\U011Bsto Praha; L=Praha 1; O=Univerzita Karlova; CN=www.asteroidsathome.net
* start date: Sep 16 14:11:13 2025 GMT
* expire date: Sep 16 14:11:13 2026 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "asteroidsathome.net" matched cert's "asteroidsathome.net"
* issuer: C=GR; O=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA; CN=GEANT TLS RSA 1
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/2
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://asteroidsathome.net/
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: asteroidsathome.net]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.7.1]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*]
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: asteroidsathome.net
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/2 200
< date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:29:26 GMT
< server: Apache/2.4.65 (Debian)
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
< last-modified: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:37:42 GMT
< etag: "137e-5ed74360ea573"
< accept-ranges: bytes
< content-length: 4990
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< content-type: text/html
<
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

and output from openssl

% echo | openssl s_client -servername asteroidsathome.net -connect asteroidsathome.net:443 | openssl x509 -noout -checkend 86400 -dates

Connecting to 195.113.29.201
depth=2 C=GR, O=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA, CN=HARICA TLS RSA Root CA 2021
verify return:1
depth=1 C=GR, O=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA, CN=GEANT TLS RSA 1
verify return:1
depth=0 C=CZ, ST=Hlavní město Praha, L=Praha 1, O=Univerzita Karlova, CN=www.asteroidsathome.net
verify return:1
DONE
notBefore=Sep 16 14:11:13 2025 GMT
notAfter=Sep 16 14:11:13 2026 GMT
Certificate will not expire


Hope this helps.
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Message 9511 - Posted: 12 May 2026, 15:30:16 UTC
As soon as I upgraded my Mac to BOINC Manager 8.2.11, I Asteriods@home stopped working. I keep getting the error:

Tue May 12 11:27:28 2026 | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Tue May 12 11:27:28 2026 | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU
Tue May 12 11:27:29 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Tue May 12 11:27:29 2026 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request to http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc_cgi/cgi failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
Tue May 12 11:27:30 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Any suggestions?
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Message 9512 - Posted: 12 May 2026, 18:13:53 UTC - in response to Message 9511.  
Gary, there's nothing we as users can do. We are STILL WAITING FOR THE PROJECT Admin TO FIX THE SERVER CERTIFICATE.
The problem is DEFINITELY ON THE Asteroids PROJECT SERVER SIDE as determined by the BOINC software maintainers.
AenBleid wrote on the problem linked below:
(BOINC/boinc#6987)
This is the issue on the server side.
Contact admin, send them the log and ask to fix the certificate chain.
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