I'm getting this when Asteroids tries to update

6/16/2025 9:14:04 AM | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request to http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc_cgi/cgi failed: HTTP service unavailable

Same here for myself and other team members

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Server status page shows everything green as normal. My system is saying http service is unavailable. I'm unable to upload completed units.

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Greetings
still a problem at 16:18 EST or 20:18 UTC.

Same here....weird

Something's gone wrong with their server backend or IT configuration. Blocking HTTP requests but not HTTPS. Bet their IT folks reconfigured their network for security reasons but didn't bother to consult the network users who may still need HTTP requests to be honored and passed through.

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This "fix" works

https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=1132&postid=9007

Confirmed. I think Keith is right: some bright spark decided to lock out HTTP, but completely forgot that a large number of jobs had just been sent out that were hard-wired to return via HTTP.

Anyway, the fix cleared all that faster than a dose of castor oil.

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"Suddenly" all the completed jobs I had on my system "disappeared" overnight and a whole flock, (94), of "computation errors" appeared in my jobs tab.

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All your errored tasks are for tasks with LC points > 2000. None of the published applications on the website are configured to run these tasks correctly. You need to use the unpublished application that is available from the project codebase and build it yourself and deploy it via the anonymous platform on your host.
The app version that works for these tasks is 102.22.
Application: ../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/AST_period_search_BOINC_linux_10222_x64_universal
Version: 102.22.1.1
For example this WU was errored out on 5 hosts for not being able to handle LC Points >2000 but when it finally got sent to one of my hosts I was able to successfuly run it.
https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/workunit.php?wuid=262949179

The errors are on hosts not running the 102.22 application:

<core_client_version>8.0.2</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
The system cannot find the file specified.
 (0x2) - exit code 2 (0x2)</message>
<stderr_txt>

Error: Number of lc points is greater than MAX_LC_POINTS = 2000

</stderr_txt>
]]>

But on my host https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=726397
It was run successfully:

<core_client_version>8.3.0</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
BOINC client version 8.3.0
Application: ../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/AST_period_search_BOINC_linux_10222_x64_universal
Version: 102.22.1.1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor            
RAM: 31 GB
Using AVX512 SIMD optimizations.
2025-06-18 13:56:34 (9601): called boinc_finish(0)

</stderr_txt>
]]>

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> You need to use the unpublished application that is available from the project codebase and build it yourself and deploy it via the anonymous platform on your host.

I can't recommend that because your wingman also needs the updated app. Otherwise, the task will fail and eventually error out and be marked invalid. Those WUs with LC Points >2000 should be cancelled by the server and reprocessed later, once the new app is officially released.

Project deleted.

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