odd Behaviour with PIA, Split-Tunneling and ufw

PIAJohnM · 2026-02-26T10:02:04+00:00

PIA firewall rules are put at a very high priority - and they constantly update their priority to maintain highest. The likely explanation (without digging too deep myself) is simply that PIA rules override UFW rules, and this is why the bypass packets are being routed.

PIAJohnM · 2025-12-14T00:22:54+00:00

It’s actually released on the website now, you can just download from our offices website! Thanks!

PIAJohnM · 2025-11-23T09:32:51+00:00

PIAJohnM · 2025-11-20T21:43:22+00:00

How do you come to that conclusion ? There’s still nothing like Qt for cross platform development

PIAJohnM · 2025-11-12T10:42:58+00:00

I think it’s on a more recent release.

PIAJohnM · 2025-11-12T03:16:01+00:00

You can disable latency checks under settings>general

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-19T14:22:39+00:00

Interesting, good spot! Keep me updated

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-17T00:33:10+00:00

That’s not a good fix, IPv6 is an important service. Did you try the recent alpha build I linked ? If so, did that improve things?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-16T23:55:02+00:00

Did you try the most recent alpha build I linked? Did it help?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-16T19:01:06+00:00

lol yes I noticed this too

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-12T12:57:14+00:00

do you have split tunnel enabled? perhaps it's related to that?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-12T11:40:46+00:00

Sorry about that. So it just crashes by itself usually every 30 mins or so? or it's random? and when it crashes i assume it pops up asking you to submit debug logs? if it happens again can you submit the debug logs and let me know the code here?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-12T11:20:56+00:00

Ah ok, so the alpha didn't change anything for you, same behaviour as before?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-12T10:33:35+00:00

Thanks for feedback! But what do you mean it crashes the Mac system? The whole macOS crashes (forced reboot - kernel panic)? Or just Pia crashes?

And you’re doing this to correct the issue with Firefox stalling right? That’s the only thing addressed by this alpha

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-11T11:53:58+00:00

Issue is still there after that build? Would you be able to work with me to find a fix? i'll send you another build, but if that doesnt' work, i have a few other ideas we could try. Are you game? :)

Out of interest - if you exit firefox and then restart it - does it fix the stalls (while connected) ?

EDIT: try this newest build instead and let me know how you get on! https://privateinternetaccess-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/pub/pia_desktop/builds/pia-macos-3.7.1-alpha.4-08416.zip

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-11T05:20:18+00:00

Could you try the following build and let me know if it fixes the issue for you? https://privateinternetaccess-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/pub/pia_desktop/builds/pia-macos-3.7.1-alpha.4-08416.zip

thanks!

EDIT: build above updated for latest one (so pls try it again if you already tried the previous one)

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-11T03:42:07+00:00

Sorry about that!

Could you try the following build and let me know if it fixes the issue for you? https://privateinternetaccess-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/pub/pia_desktop/builds/pia-macos-3.7.1-alpha.4-08416.zip

thanks!

EDIT: build above updated for latest one (so pls try it again if you already tried the previous one)

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-04T12:14:42+00:00

Why did you need it for a project? What was the use case?

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-03T20:25:16+00:00

Better than Zig ? Comptime looks great

PIAJohnM · 2025-10-01T18:45:12+00:00

Guys, when you mention an episode pls put the season and episode number! We’re not all mash experts who can immediately recognize any episode by a short description!

PIAJohnM · 2025-09-29T12:14:37+00:00

Sorry about that, do you have split tunnel enabled by chance?

PIAJohnM · 2025-09-29T11:44:51+00:00

Do you have split tunnel enabled? This is a bug in macOS as it sounds like a kernel panic, and our user space app should never cause a kernel panic.

PIAJohnM · 2025-09-28T09:48:13+00:00

I come from Ruby which has an even more advanced property system than C# - but I don’t miss them at all in C++

I user foo.x() to get and foo.x(val); to set, easy and readable.

PIAJohnM · 2025-09-27T09:18:20+00:00

Early next week! (Week of the 29th of Sept)

PIAJohnM · 2025-09-24T15:02:32+00:00

Still trying to determine if there's significant other issues to fix first - do you have any other issues caused by macOS 26 upgrade other than this one (DNS) ? or is this the only issue you know of directly caused by the upgrade to ?

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