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C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 4:16 pm
by _wes
When I start C4D and then Octane from the menu, you can see in to bottom left area, that Ocaten tries to activate the PlugIn (OctanePlugIn activation...). This takes some time and results in an error message "ERROR: Resolving timed out after 8001 milleseconds res:3" (see screenshot).
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My subscription is paid and active when I check on the Ocaten-Website. The standalone does work, is "Activated" and "OctaneLive: connected".

How to fix? Thanks.

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:25 am
by bepeg4d
Hi,
please write to help at otoy dot com sharing your OTOY username, thanks.

ciao,
Beppe

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:34 am
by Raum4D
i got the same error, what was the solution for this in the end?

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:55 am
by bepeg4d
Hi,

it could be a DNS issue.

If I remember well, the user has solved by switching to the DNS service provided by Cloudflare:
https://1.1.1.1/dns/

ciao,
Beppe

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:03 am
by Raum4D
Oh thanks! that worked!

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 1:59 pm
by ack2v
Hello,

we have the exact same issue and are looking for a solution. Can someone give a step-by-step instruction on how to switch the DNS service? I don't fully understand where and how to set it up. Thanks much in advance!

Re: C4D PlugIn wont activate

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:32 pm
by Delizade
bepeg4d, thank you!
(ack2v, use chatGPT according to your OS it will guide you well)