I'm getting persistent errors when trying to create a public share, alternating between a context deadline exceeded and a 500 Internal Server Error, across multiple retries over more than an hour (including after a device restart and after deleting a duplicate/stale environment from my account). Env…

Judging by the number of threads created on this topic over the past month, this problem is affecting many people and occurring very frequently. I don't know if the developers are aware of the issue.

+1, hitting this exact same alternating pattern today (2026-09-24) — same two errors: [POST /share][500] shareInternalServerError "" and unable to create share: context deadline exceeded Same as described above: retries alternate between the two, confirmed status.zrok.io shows all green, DNS res…

[image] Ak353: Happy to share my envZId or timestamps if it helps correlate on your end I shared this with them. They simply aren't responding. It seems the problem is critical and unsolvable.

I'm facing the exact same issue. zrok 1.1.11: zrok enable still works, but creating a share fails: [ERROR]: unable to create share (unable to create share: [POST /share][500] shareInternalServerError) zrok2: enabling an environment fails entirely: the zrok service returned an error: [POST /enabl…

Thanks for confirming, smilindave26 — good to know it's on your radar. In the meantime, for anyone else stuck: denis.mladenek's workaround above worked for me today. Release the environment via api-v1.zrok.io (took two attempts — first one also 500'd, second went through), then locally zrok2 disabl…

[image] Stuck zrok2 account – enable and web console release both return 500 error zrok I have been told by the team other zrok updates are due to come out today. We'll follow up in a bit and hopefully these problems will be fixed. Thanks for letting us know …

[image] Stuck zrok2 account – enable and web console release both return 500 error zrok Hi everyone. If you had stuck sessions that cannot be deleted, I'm told you should now be able to delete them on your own again. I don't have any I can test myself personall…

Consistent alternating 500/timeout on POST /share (hosted service, api-v2.zrok.io)

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smilindave26 September 24, 2026, 11:16am 5

Thanks for the report. We're aware of the issue and are preparing updates to the service.

Cannot create a public share — HTTP 500 shareInternalServerError (zrok v1.1.11, Windows 11)

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Consistent alternating 500/timeout on POST /share (hosted service, api-v2.zrok.io)

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