jdii1215 wrote:that the collection server knows about all projects.... One of my clients has been trying intermitently to turn in a 769 WU for 7-8 hours now, and the collections server is not aware of wu 769 as a valid WU. The normal server (122.138) is rejecting LAN test packets and not accepting returns.


As Vijay has said, the CS knows about all the projects and all the servers. It also has a list of WUs from each server that it's allowed to accept. Since that list is updated on a regular schedule, there's always a few WUs that are issued after the last list update and before the primary work server (.138, in this case) went down. You're just one of the unlucky ones who got one of those WUs. In this case, it appears that server .138 was very busy so there were quite a few WUs, but not entire projects.

The local queue of your client is designed to handle server outages, and the collection server minimizes the need for that queue, but there still will be some that just have to wait.