SMM connection problems
Okay this is absolutely a local problem for me, but I'm a complete dumbass when it comes to anything networking related, so any insight is helpful
For about 2 weeks lately, almost every action in mod manager gives me this error (or almost identical one, with any other mod randomly):
And naturally the action doesn't finish (mods don't end up in /mods/ folder when turning them on, profiles don't switch, etc).
Taking a step back, SMM usually doesn't even work at all for me without VPN, I get the error "
Could not reach ficsit.app" on top. That said, I am able to access ficsit.app website, as well as successfully ping api.ficsit.app
Then I enable VPN and restart SMM; it opens normally but gives errors on actions as described above. Website still works, pings work, ping to 188.114.98.231 works, ficsit.app correctly resolves into 188.114.98.231.
So I'm a bit confused what else I can check to find the issue. Any advice appreciated
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Worth mentioning that I'm from Russia and a lot of stuff is blocked here, even Discord, but usually it takes just one little VPN to get it working; not the case here. Also I don't think ficsit.app is blocked... I hope lol
hmm
>russia
nope
Fair enough 😔
timing out, interesting 🤔
@Mircea (Area Actions) would probably know this one
I have seen quite a few reports of it not working in russia recently
What I don't get is that, if I just copy paste this URL into a browser, the query is successful
Is the VPN setup on your PC or on the browser?
So I absolutely can reach it, but somehow the app cant
typo*
On PC, for all apps (discord doesn't work without it otherwise)
So, with the VPN, are you getting that "could not reach ficsit.app" banner, or just the "failed to resolve lockfile" error?
The latter.
Banner appears if I try to launch the app without VPN
I see that in the error it tries to establish the connection using your local IP, rather than your VPN IP, which explains why it errors, but idk why it's doing that, I couldn't reproduce this using my university VPN (uses the wireguard protocol), as far as I can tell windows itself should determine which network interface to use when none is provided
...So as far as I can tell, it uses local ip even if VPN is disabled huh
I guess something is severely messed up in my windows, welp
It seems to be a common issue though
Is the VPN you're using free? If so, what is it? Maybe I can reproduce the issue with that VPN
I'm paying for it (bubu vpn), but it just offers a key to use in other clients. Usually Im using Karing, and sometimes Hiddify. For SMM they both behave the same though