hey y'all. I've been having intermittent issues with the GUI not connecting to monerod since the last network upgrade. The 0.15.0.2 update didn't really fix it. looks to me like monerod is running without errors, but the Monero GUI still can't connect to it. The issue is intermittent -- it sometimes works, and I can often get it working after it

stops by rebooting. This is (or is supposed to be) a 24/7 p2p node

anyway, I'm happy to pass along anything that might be useful. logs, etc

lyza: Are you using simple mode?

no

Can you go to Settings -> Node and check if you have something entered in the bootstrap address / bootstrap port textbox?

they are oth blank

both*

ok, you are starting the daemon separately?

well I've tried letting the GUI do it, and I've also tried doing it separately in its own console window

Can you try the CLI wallet and see if it has the same issue?

the log in the GUI prints a lot of "Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081" despite the fact that the daemon is running seemingly without errors

I tried the CLI wallet awhile ago but sure I'll give it another spin

I haven’t read any similar reports so I wonder if it is something on your system, anti virus or something similar.

CLI doesn't connect to daemon either. I suppose it could be my system, but the issue certainly seems to have corresponded with the upgrade. I haven't changed much of anything else

aaaaand the GUI just connected

can you try to use a remote node?

e.g. node.xmr.to:18081

sure one moment

weird how creating a TX sometimes takes 10s of seconds, other times it's almost instant.....

+selsta: xmr.to timed out but I was able to connect to the remote node at opennode.xmr-tw.org:18089

no connection problems?

nope. I think I may have figured out the issue, though. It seems to not be working specifically when the ProtonVPN app is running

but two things. first, I have ProtonVPN on Split Tunneling mode, so it should only be impacted two apps, neither of which are Monero. And second, I should still be able to connect to the local node even if I'm on a VPN? I've tried opening / closing ProtonVPN a few times now though and it seems to be what's causing the issue

If I connect to the VPN AFTER the wallet is open and connected to the daemon, that's fine, but it stops it from establishing a new connection if the VPN is running when I try to open a wallet

sorry I don’t know what the ProtonVPN is doing exactly.

that's fine, I wouldn't necessarily expect you to. and I was more looking to provide hopefully useful feedback than to get particular help.

seems like this could be an issue with the OS or ProtonVPN, but I don't know enough to say. I can say that Monero seems to be the only app that's been adversely affected.