"We were unable to connect to the internet. Please check your connection..."

[seoulcrusher]

OK - just started getting this today.

So far I've:

Disabled windows firewall - not working.

Added explicit windows firewall rules for the client and the java client - not working.

Let me know what other info you might need; log file below:

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1428321531960-@-2015-04-06 08:58:51.962-@-INFO-@-Client not encoded. Relaunching with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
1428321532256-@-2015-04-06 08:58:52.257-@-INFO-@-Already encoded. Continuing to launch program.
1428321533387-@-2015-04-06 08:58:53.387-@-INFO-@-Lock acquired
1428321533398-@-2015-04-06 08:58:53.398-@-INFO-@-Client successfully bound to port 1080
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(N ative Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Un known Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress( Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.http://www.protocol.http.HttpURLConn...Client(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.http://www.protocol.http.HttpURLConn...nnect0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.http://www.protocol.http.HttpURLConn...onnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.http://www.protocol.http.HttpURLConn...onnect(Unknown Source)
at com.zygor.updater.mvc.startup.view.CheckStartup$1. call(Unknown Source)
at com.zygor.updater.mvc.startup.view.CheckStartup$1. call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker( Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[seoulcrusher]

Gah. Fixed it. It seems that Astrill VPN's "OpenWeb" protocol was the issue. I switched to "OpenVPN" and everything started working. F U again Astrill. I'll be switching VPN providers.