I discovered this while investigating intermittent Internet outages lasting several minutes. The outages may be unrelated, because the Zenarmor/Eastpect errors continue even when connectivity is fully restored and working normally.
The recurring errors are:
WARN [UDPConnectionFlow::connect] ... UDP flow connect failed: Address already in use
CRIT [EastpectInstance::onAcceptUDP] ... New UDP flow connect failed for client
Examples include DNS and QUIC/UDP 443 traffic from multiple clients:
2026-08-20T03:33:26.897766 WARN [UDPConnectionFlow::connect] [CLI][proxmox.internal][10.123.50.10:60009] UDP flow connect failed: Address already in use
2026-08-20T03:33:26.897785 CRIT [EastpectInstance::onAcceptUDP] [UDP://10.123.50.10:60009<->10.123.50.1:53] New UDP flow connect failed for client
2026-08-20T03:34:03.398413 WARN [UDPConnectionFlow::connect] [CLI][10.123.10.147:32832] UDP flow connect failed: Address already in use
2026-08-20T03:34:03.398437 CRIT [EastpectInstance::onAcceptUDP] [UDP://10.123.10.147:32832<->142.251.186.101:443] New UDP flow connect failed for client
The errors are occurring every few seconds across multiple VLANs/devices. During one known-good monitoring period, IP connectivity, DNS resolution, HTTPS access, and active YouTube streaming were all functioning normally while these errors continued.
The messages are found in:
/usr/local/zenarmor/log/active/worker*.log
Zenarmor is attached to vtnet2 and WireGuard interfaces, with policies matched by VLAN ID and/or IP ranges.
Is this expected/benign Eastpect behavior, or does it indicate a socket/UDP flow-handling problem that should be corrected? Also, is there any known condition where a high rate of these failures could contribute to intermittent connectivity loss?
OPNsense: 26.7
Zenarmor: 2.6.2
Zenarmor Agent: 2.6.1