Daz Studio Hanging

Daz just checked out "Not Responding". I went into Task Manager and found "Task is waiting on incomplete Network IO". 

I turned off my wifi. A moment later, I found this in the log:

2025-10-19 18:32:07.888 [WARNING] :: \src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(203): recv failed errno=10054

And while it is still not responding, IRAY did an update and then there was another network log:

2025-10-19 18:34:34.623 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 06410 iterations after 09:21.918.

2025-10-19 18:34:42.576 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 06506 iterations after 09:29.872.

2025-10-19 18:34:51.139 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 06698 iterations after 09:38.434.

2025-10-19 18:34:57.207 [WARNING] :: \src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(203): curl_easy_perform(https://hpclscruffy.daz3d.com/Server/ping?SID=IHpjsOGtMp3vAlaMmBRZ5BmExJsh2YU7W2QAETFgtlV_MMg6w-RfXw) failed: Couldn't resolve host name

What was I doing when this started? I was trying to turn off IRAY preview. I never got the drop down to appear.

Now, I was reading discord the whole time it was "stuck". There were no network issues. And if I hit that URL, it sends back a JSON response immediately.

Ten minutes later, Daz is still Not Responding, hour glass mouse point, white shade across the interface.

But IRAY is still going

2025-10-19 18:37:49.938 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 11074 iterations after 12:37.234.
2025-10-19 18:39:02.825 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 12861 iterations after 13:50.120.
2025-10-19 18:40:01.137 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 14289 iterations after 14:48.432.
2025-10-19 18:40:47.495 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 15431 iterations after 15:34.791.
2025-10-19 18:41:24.467 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 16345 iterations after 16:11.763.
2025-10-19 18:41:54.131 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 17077 iterations after 16:41.426.
2025-10-19 18:42:17.753 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 17661 iterations after 17:05.048.
2025-10-19 18:42:36.641 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 18129 iterations after 17:23.936.

I turned the network back on to post this. And now there's a wait chain for Network IO once again.

And IRAY is no longer updating in the logs.

Turned off network again after the analyze lock chain said Not Responding again

2025-10-19 18:43:53.598 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend progr: Maximum number of samples reached.

2025-10-19 18:47:06.726 [WARNING] :: \src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(203): curl_easy_perform(https://hpclscruffy.daz3d.com/Server/ping?SID=IHpjsOGtMp3vAlaMmBRZ5BmExJsh2YU7W2QAETFgtlV_MMg6w-RfXw) failed: Couldn't resolve host name

Wow, Google AI says:

An IP address for hpclscruffy.daz3d.com cannot be provided because it is not a consistently live or publicly accessible server. Instead, it refers to an older, internal server used by Daz 3D's software. Modern Daz 3D products no longer rely on this specific server. 

So why is my 4.24 copy of Daz looking for it?