<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Just turn off your firewall! đ<br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Seriously, the macOS firewall is an Application firewall. If that suits your risk profile, you can control it through the command line:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw -h</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Port- and packet-based filtering is handled by pfctl, and thatâs a lot more flexible than the macOS application firewall.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 14, 2021, at 20:55, Gerben Wierda via macports-users <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">ï»ż<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">I am running an extensive MacPorts (with postfix, dovecot, nginx, minion, etc.) on my macOS Server, which is still running macOS Mojave.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On one of the other Macs, running macOS Catalina, I run a backup unbound caching nameserver. This also offers me a way to do some minimal testing of the MacPorts setup on a more recent version of macOS (as a preparation for upgrading the Mojave system when Apple stops supporting it)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The unbound on macOS Catalina runs fine, except for one thing. After a reboot, unbound will not accept incoming connections until I have logged in an answer the application firewallsâ question:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" class=""><b class="">Do you want the application âunboundâ to accept incoming network connections?</b></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" class="">Clicking Deny may limit the applicationâs behaviour. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security & Privacy preferences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can answer yes, check the entry in the application firewall (set to yes, accept, even before I allow it through the panel). But even if it is set to accept incoming connections, after a reboot I need to log in and answer again via the GUI before it accepts. Setting this in the Application firewall doesnât âstickâ for some reason.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is not acceptable behaviour if I ever upgrade my Mojave Server, as that one must be able to do unsupervised reboots/running without any login.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there something special in Catalina I must do? Or is this expected behaviour?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class="">Gerben Wierda (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda" class="">LinkedIn</a>)</div><div class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/" class="">R&A Enterprise Architecture</a> (main site)<br class="">Book: <a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/" class="">Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture</a><br class="">Book: <a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/" class="">Mastering ArchiMate</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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