I just encountered this error trying to update and it was not due to the firewall. It is due to a poorly maintained DNS system that amazon web services use.
From what I can see it seems that the domain name s3.amazonaws.com resolves to different addresses depending on your geographic location. The monkeys that maintain the addresses are not very good at what they do because today the address for Australia is 127.0.0.1. According to a search on http://forums.whirlpool.net.au, this appears to have happened before and been fixed so the fact that s3.amazonaws.com again resolves to localhost suggests that whoever runs the DNS is not qualified for the job.
My workaround has been to put "176.32.100.200 s3.amazonaws.com" in my hosts file, but I really think Mojang should look at applying some pressure to get amazon web services to fix the problem and make very sure that it never happens again. Not everyone understands networking well enough to work around this kind of problem themselves and it doesn't look good when attempting to update results in a fatal error because of a third party's incompetence.
You're in australia? Are you sure the problem is Amazon? I seem to recall something about Telestra or BigPond blocking things before.
Kind of like the great firewall of China.
You should try using a DNS server that is not located in Australia to see if the problem is caused by the local ISPs / Aussie gov't
The reason this happens is because firewalls count s3.amazonaws.com as malicious. Mojang just needs to start sending out updates from assets.minecraft.net
The reason this happens is because firewalls count s3.amazonaws.com as malicious. Mojang just needs to start sending out updates from assets.minecraft.net
So true! Yeah, why don't they just use their own website? Probably a good reason. I'm exhausted right now, while I'm writing this, so I'm not thinking straight. Sorry if I'm rambling. Haven't gotten around to taking a look at my firewall yet; I'm kind of busy with finals and stuff, and I'm just using my FTB ultimate pack right now, but I really need to get down to this. I'd like to give Better Than Wolves or Terrafirmacraft a whirl. They look pretty cool, but I just can't force an update to get a clean .jar (and both of those conversions really need a clean .jar). I guess I could try temporarily removing K9 Web Protection to see if that's really causing the problem, but it kind of sounds like it's my firewall. I don't know yet.
Ha. I just realized I misspelled "occurred" on the OP. I wrote "occured".
So true! Yeah, why don't they just use their own website? Probably a good reason. I'm exhausted right now, while I'm writing this, so I'm not thinking straight. Sorry if I'm rambling. Haven't gotten around to taking a look at my firewall yet; I'm kind of busy with finals and stuff, and I'm just using my FTB ultimate pack right now, but I really need to get down to this. I'd like to give Better Than Wolves or Terrafirmacraft a whirl. They look pretty cool, but I just can't force an update to get a clean .jar (and both of those conversions really need a clean .jar). I guess I could try temporarily removing K9 Web Protection to see if that's really causing the problem, but it kind of sounds like it's my firewall. I don't know yet.
Ha. I just realized I misspelled "occurred" on the OP. I wrote "occured".
Do NOT disable your firewall. People tell you to disable it to do certain things but you can get hacked very easily. In just 1 morning, around 15 malicious IPs tried to connect to me.
Do NOT disable your firewall. People tell you to disable it to do certain things but you can get hacked very easily. In just 1 morning, around 15 malicious IPs tried to connect to me.
Ouch. Good thing I knew that. I think I meant just temporarily disabling K9, but not my firewall. K9 is an optional, additional software, but I still have all that other good stuff protecting me. I'm just saying I'd disable K9 for a minute, run Minecraft, then if it's working fine, I'll know that k9 is the problem, and I'll try more unblocking methods with it, to see if I can get Minecraft to work fine.
Look on the website of your firewall and see if there are tutorials or instructions.
From what I can see it seems that the domain name s3.amazonaws.com resolves to different addresses depending on your geographic location. The monkeys that maintain the addresses are not very good at what they do because today the address for Australia is 127.0.0.1. According to a search on http://forums.whirlpool.net.au, this appears to have happened before and been fixed so the fact that s3.amazonaws.com again resolves to localhost suggests that whoever runs the DNS is not qualified for the job.
My workaround has been to put "176.32.100.200 s3.amazonaws.com" in my hosts file, but I really think Mojang should look at applying some pressure to get amazon web services to fix the problem and make very sure that it never happens again. Not everyone understands networking well enough to work around this kind of problem themselves and it doesn't look good when attempting to update results in a fatal error because of a third party's incompetence.
Kind of like the great firewall of China.
You should try using a DNS server that is not located in Australia to see if the problem is caused by the local ISPs / Aussie gov't
Alright, I'll try that tomorrow. It's like 11:30 right now, so I'll be off to bet tonight, but I hope this works tomorrow....
So true! Yeah, why don't they just use their own website? Probably a good reason. I'm exhausted right now, while I'm writing this, so I'm not thinking straight. Sorry if I'm rambling. Haven't gotten around to taking a look at my firewall yet; I'm kind of busy with finals and stuff, and I'm just using my FTB ultimate pack right now, but I really need to get down to this. I'd like to give Better Than Wolves or Terrafirmacraft a whirl. They look pretty cool, but I just can't force an update to get a clean .jar (and both of those conversions really need a clean .jar). I guess I could try temporarily removing K9 Web Protection to see if that's really causing the problem, but it kind of sounds like it's my firewall. I don't know yet.
Ha. I just realized I misspelled "occurred" on the OP. I wrote "occured".
Do NOT disable your firewall. People tell you to disable it to do certain things but you can get hacked very easily. In just 1 morning, around 15 malicious IPs tried to connect to me.
Ouch. Good thing I knew that. I think I meant just temporarily disabling K9, but not my firewall. K9 is an optional, additional software, but I still have all that other good stuff protecting me. I'm just saying I'd disable K9 for a minute, run Minecraft, then if it's working fine, I'll know that k9 is the problem, and I'll try more unblocking methods with it, to see if I can get Minecraft to work fine.
What exactly is the URL you enabled? K9 has to be my problem; like you, I don't have McAfee or Avira.