www.makemkv.com

Apologies in advance for my ignorance, but I can't understand most of the solutions in this thread!

Is it just safe to say that something is broken and will be fixed in a future update?


No your dns is broken


In situations like these I like to recite: " DNS Haiku " by Reddit user SSBroski ...

Thanks @SamuriHL. That was really helpful.

I see the problem now...

If you have an ad-blocking appliance such as a PiHole that does DNS filtering, or a router with "DNS Filtering" built-in, one of those devices *could* be intercepting your DNS queries (UDP:53). The queries are then passed ...

Changing my computer's DNS to CloudFlare did not solve the problem.

If this *is* working for you, can you please run nslookup hkdatastore.tk and post the results?

Here's mine:

nslookup hkdatastore.tk :
studio$ nslookup hkdatastore.tk
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative ...

I have Little Snitch installed on my Mac, which allows for monitoring, filtering, and capturing connections from any app on the system.

When opening a disc, MakeMKV tries to connect to http://hkdtst17.twilightparadox.com /

That server currently resolves to 127.0.0.54. If that address looks wrong ...

This is still not fixed. I've checked my firewall settings. Downloaded the sqv.bin file manually.

I think we're all screwed until the hkdatastore site comes back.