WUProp: Bug in version 2.36 for Windows

[RSS]

There is a bug in the version 2.36 for Windows. The application slows down or blocks the network. You should abort the workunit if you run this version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

More... (http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=93)

[DrBob]

I got bit by this one. :(
Came home after work last night to find my network down. Just figured it was my router as I had some issues with it last month. Re-booted the router & nada, no machines could access the gateway & internal network communications spotty at best. Re-enabling the network adapters made no difference had to re-boot the machines to get back to normal.
Got up about an hour ago to find the network down again. :mad:
Couldn't even get to the net by connecting my main box directly to the MODEM, had to re-boot the machine to get the network up.
Getting that "Oh No!" feeling I was ready to start searching boxen for a virus or Trojan but then wondered "could it be a BOINC project?"
Logging onto the boards I found this thread. BINGO! Setting WUProp to NNW and aborting work for that project on all machines brought the network and all machines back to normal operation. :D

[Maxwell]

Wow, DrBob...

I did notice that they misspelled "bug" in the first post. It's actually spelled "colossal f*** up".

[Crazybob]

How dangerous is this? Reason I ask is that my work boxes have been acting screwy connecting to our network. Would it affect the network here? They say to abort the WU, but if the problem is in the program, wouldn't be better to just shut the program down?

[-GER-]

It got me too, was wondering why wu's were bunkering. aborted on all machines and ver 2.37 took its place.

[Fire$torm]

How dangerous is this? Reason I ask is that my work boxes have been acting screwy connecting to our network. Would it affect the network here? They say to abort the WU, but if the problem is in the program, wouldn't be better to just shut the program down?

They have already updated the app so no worries. And yes any machine running the buggy app would have been affected.

[Bok]

Hit me too and does have me worried, what can they possibly have done to hijack the networking ? Surely BOINC permissions should not allow anything like that ? I did some debugging, though windows is not my forte :) Ended up disabling ipv6 completely in the registry, disabling some vmware connections I didn't realise I had etc etc.

It seemed to be just #$%#$%ing up port 80 as I could ping and traceroute ok, but I tried a telnet on port 80 to my webserver that failed.

I've asked on their boards for a little clarification, suggest others do too.. I WANT to know just exactly what it did.

[Crazybob]

Took me a while to get back in here, since the program was screwing up my Internet connection. I would like to know what this thing was doing? Glad I have shrunk my farm here to only my department. If this got reported to IT, it would have been my ASS. Aborted on almost all machines now. This thing was doing some real oddball things here as far as blocking access to servers where databases were kept. Also network based programs were intermitant at best. Here I thought it was the LAN Nazis at work again. That was close.

[zombie67]

Crap! I ordered a new router yesterday because of this!! :mad:

[Dandasarge]

Dang... This is why i couldnt check my e-mail this morning.

[DrBob]

Crap! I ordered a new router yesterday because of this!! :mad:Well that sucks. :(
I can understand why you thought you needed to replace it though. I keep a pre-configured spare on hand and was real close to swapping the unit out before I became aware of the WUProp problem.

[denim]

Was wondering why I could not get out to any webpages last night.

[Crazybob]

Luckily for me the women in Assembly here, are pretty passive. "It not work, I not work." They waited and complained to me, who kept saying that you need to reboot to make "it work". Would run for a little bit and then no connectivity.

[Shadow]

I got hit with the bug too. After aborting them, the new WU's sent were version 2.37. Detaching for now to be on the safe side.

[Maxwell]

Ditto here. I did a project reset on all machines.

[Shadow]

Has anyone had any problems since they changed to 2.37?

[zombie67]

It's working for me. FYI, it's up to 2.40 or 2.41 now.

[Shadow]

Yup, seems to be working fine now. I just re-attached to it yesterday and got a version 2.41 work unit.