App constantly reconnects #7369
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Thank you for reporting this! Do you know if this was an issue for you in earlier versions of the app? |
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Thanks for quick reply! Seems to be 2024.8 specific - can't remember it ever being this bad 🤬 Regards |
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Seeing the same behaviour on 2024.9-beta1 Mac Sequoia - 15.1.1 Happens every few seconds, even after a recent restart. Also, googled it and found this exact issue on reddit with mullvad. https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/1gja4uw/silent_failure_of_the_macos_version_20247_without/ |
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This build reverts some code that might have introduced this issue: https://releases.mullvad.net/desktop/builds/2024.9-beta1-dev-ec7c94%2Btest-macos-revert-scdynstore-ip/MullvadVPN-2024.9-beta1-dev-ec7c94%2Btest-macos-revert-scdynstore-ip.pkg Please report back if it helps and we'll make it part of an actual release! If it does not help, we'll investigate further. Be aware that this is an unsupported dev build. It should work fine, but you'll be warned and it's not fully tested. |
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That build has the same issue unfortunately @dlon .
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Appreciate that you tested it! We'll obviously have to think of something else. Is either of you running any other software that we should be aware of? In the initial log, it looks like there's some fighting over DNS. It also looks like IPv6 might be involved. Maybe disabling IPv6 in macOS can help rule out the latter. This can be done in the network settings. Go to Details > TCP/IP > Configure IPv6 and select "Link-Local Only". If all else fails, a workaround you could try is to disable the offline check. By running this: Even if this does work, though, it might cause other issues, e.g. when switching between networks. |
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Downgraded to 2024-08 (non-beta), which is stable again I'm afraid I don't have time to test - probably won't install a beta again after this experience 🫠 Good luck with fix! |
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@dlon I can test this as I also experienced similar DNS-ish fighting issues recently on 2024-09-beta1. I have Little Snitch 6 and Tailscale installed (though Tailscale running doesn't seem to make a difference and anyway it's not in exit configuration and the DNS is not used). Locally, an IPv6 address is handed out by the router but it's link-local as the ISP does not support it. Edit 1: Things are better with the 2025.2 release now, though other issues are present. |
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Hey folks, is this the same bug where:
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Yes So likely no Regards |
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I have the same issue as described above: initial connection works fine, but every so often, I get a notification saying that mullvad is reconnecting. This reconnection usually takes 5-10 seconds. All internet is blocked while the daemon reconnects - if I'm in a call, or if I'm downloading something large, the connection is interrupted and I have to call the person back or restart the download.
I tried just this and can confirm that this solves the issue. Switching to link local stopped the problem from happening for a few days. Weirdly enough, just opening the network pane of system settings caused the problem to reoccur. I switched back to auto-configuration of ipv6 and the problem started happening again, even if it's far less often (before I tried this, happened between every 5min and every half hour. After, it happened 2 -> far less disruptive). I can provide logs, look into my DNS, do anything else (within limits) that'd be helpful. I have the same custom DNS servers setup in my mullvad config and in mac network settings if that's of any insight |
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Same issue, and disabling IPv6 also solved the problem for me - I had recently replaced my router and didn't realize IPv6 was automatically enabled on the new one. |
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Hello everyone! I think I'm also having this issue on Macos Sequoia 15.3 and Apple Silicon. I keep the macos Firewall turned on (but turning it off does not influence the problem). More specifically, whenever I connect through the Mullvad vpn app (version 2025.2), after about 30 minutes, the wifi connection drops (with a greyed out wifi icon in the macos menu bar). Whenever this happens I can reconnect manually to the network, but after 30 minutes the issue reappears. Moreover, I could not reproduce the problem using the Wireguard client on my system (i.e. it worked fine for more than an hour). I usually keep wifi auto-join off, but I tried turning it on and at first I couldn't notice the problem, which seemed to be solved. But looking in the daemon.log file the same issue seemed to be happening: the wifi would disconnect and immediately reconnect: the experience was only apparently seamless. I only use IPv4 but I made sure to disable IPv6 through the terminal (following the instructions on the Mullvad website), after noticing that some people had managed to solve the problem by doing so, but nothing changed. The following is the daemon.log: |
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Is it a bug?
I have checked if others have reported this already
Current Behavior
Disconnects closer to minutes than hours
I don't mind a disconnect every few hours but this is getting ridiculous right now
Expected Behavior
Keep connected closer to hours than minutes
Steps to Reproduce
Failure Logs
Operating system version
macOS 15.2 (24C98)
Mullvad VPN app version
2024.9-beta1
Additional Information
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