internet connection needed for this node to work (great node though!)

[dimmm7]

If i am not connected to the internet this node does not work.
If for any reason my connection is lost i get an error message.
What is happening that is not local? I think it's related to this message:

!!! Exception during processing!!! HTTPSConnectionPool(host='huggingface.co', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /laion/CLIP-ViT-bigG-14-laion2B-39B-b160k/resolve/main/model.safetensors.index.json (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x000001F8EF357390>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11002] getaddrinfo failed')).

Could you confirm this is normal?

Thank you