diff --git a/iroh-net/src/endpoint.rs b/iroh-net/src/endpoint.rs
index afbd5d58dd..d194892f74 100644
--- a/iroh-net/src/endpoint.rs
+++ b/iroh-net/src/endpoint.rs
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
     ///
     /// Returns an error if closing the magic socket failed.
     /// TODO: Document error cases.
-    pub async fn close(self, error_code: VarInt, reason: &[u8]) -> Result<()> {
+    pub async fn close(&self, error_code: VarInt, reason: &[u8]) -> Result<()> {
         let Endpoint {
             msock,
             endpoint,
@@ -975,9 +975,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
         tracing::debug!("Closing connections");
         endpoint.close(error_code, reason);
         endpoint.wait_idle().await;
-        // In case this is the last clone of `Endpoint`, dropping the `quinn::Endpoint` will
-        // make it more likely that the underlying socket is not polled by quinn anymore after this
-        drop(endpoint);
+
         tracing::debug!("Connections closed");
 
         msock.close().await?;
diff --git a/iroh-router/src/router.rs b/iroh-router/src/router.rs
index 70e4633f43..bd39e9b5b0 100644
--- a/iroh-router/src/router.rs
+++ b/iroh-router/src/router.rs
@@ -181,9 +181,7 @@ async fn shutdown(endpoint: &Endpoint, protocols: Arc<ProtocolMap>) {
         // Closing the Endpoint is the equivalent of calling Connection::close on all
         // connections: Operations will immediately fail with ConnectionError::LocallyClosed.
         // All streams are interrupted, this is not graceful.
-        endpoint
-            .clone()
-            .close(error_code.into(), b"provider terminating"),
+        endpoint.close(error_code.into(), b"provider terminating"),
         // Shutdown protocol handlers.
         protocols.shutdown(),
     );