I have quickly put this page together just to summarise the impact of the France Telecom - Cogent de-peering problems. I do this because the thread is hard to read and to get the information you need to help you is difficult.

There are problems for some European users. In France, Holland and Belgium users have problems connecting to the seti data severs. This is because there is now no reliable route through because FT and Cogent had an argument as it is understood.

I asked SetiOne (fellow Boincer) to translate the problem into French also so this may help you if you are struggling with English.

"Pour les francophones qui rencontrent des problèmes d'envoi de leur WU (tout type de projet BOINC) il s'agit en fait d'un problème chez Wanadoo et les filiales de FT (France Telecom) dont les IP sont bloquées par un intermédiaire US du nom de "Cogent", pourquoi ça l'histoire ne le dit pas."
 

I have been diagnosing the problem for people for some days now and many are affected. The problem manifests itself as BOINC cannot connect to a scheduler - no response.

You can test to see if you are affected by running tracert from a command line prompt.

tracert setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu      (for windows users)

or

traceroute setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu    (for Unix users)

If you fail to see the IP address 66.28.250.125 in the last line  - then you are affected. If you see this IP address but still cannot connect then your problem may be different to this one and you should seek help at the seti forum.

For those who have the problem you can use a proxy to try and overcome it. Thanks to all who have helped identify and get the work arounds needed. Much appreciated!

67.99.5.202  PORT : 80
66.220.32.242 PORT : 8080 (USA)
208.50.119.187 PORT : 80 (USA)
137.164.143.112 PORT : 80 (USA)
190.65.163.78 PORT : 3128 (Columbia)
195.229.240.86 PORT : 80
165.228.131.12 PORT : 80 (Australia)
165.228.132.10 PORT : 3128 (Australia)
203.106.52.102 PORT : 3128 (Malaysia)
82.101.132.51 PORT : 8080
62.193.231.243 PORT : 8080
195.229.240.86 PORT : 80
193.188.96.19 PORT : 80
193.188.96.138 PORT : 80
217.17.233.181 PORT : 80
66.160.69.101 PORT : 80
202.56.253.183 PORT : 8080

Also

You can find a proxy (free proxy) here : aliveproxy.com or here  free-proxy-servers.com

Also out latest attempts to provide reliable proxies

These are the Boinc network buddy providers in the scheme.

Also some background

You will find Boinc Community Proxy Information here - Background to the Buddy scheme.

If you are unsure how to add the proxy information then try Paul's FAQ here.

If you are still having problems then come to the forums here and ask.

You can find Paul Buck's excellent documentation for BONIC here. Its worth book marking!

Other non FT users may be affected too:

Iridian posted news he found in Germany as follows:

"Tiscali hat Cogent in Europe depeer'ed, will heissen sämtliche Peerings mit Cogent/Gatel beendet, nur noch das in den USA steht. Der Grund ist das ruinöse Dumpingverhalten von Cogent auf dem europäischen Markt.
Mitlerweile haben einige Carrier Cogent depeered, manche teilweise, andere ganz. U.a. KPN, Tiscali, Teleglobe, Telia usw usw...
Teleglobe ist sogar soweit gegangen, dass man dort alle Pakete zu Cogent filtert, d.h. Cogent ist von Teleglobe aus (und umgekehrt) nicht zu erreichen.
Wenn Cogent so weitermacht, isses (hoffentlich) bald vorbei."

I asked fellow Boincer and Team Member Mad Matt to translate this:

Regards and gl

Ian

aka (Tigher)