Ventura to Sequoia upgrade snafus firewall options

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chase.turner OP
Created Sep ’24
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ISSUE

Upgrading a macOS Ventura host to Sequoia results in the attached three issues visible in either of the two screen shot:

  1. Whether or not "Block all incoming connections" is enabled, a small subset of connections are hard-wired to "Allow incoming connections";

  2. It is not possible to remove the hard-wired "Allow incoming connections" (e.g., selecting the row, the "-" button at bottom left is not available"; and

  3. After the upgrade to Sequoia, SidecarRelay was set to "Block incoming connections".

QUESTIONs

a) What terminal level commands should be used to remove the hard-wired "Allow incoming connections"?

b) What other integrity checks should I run on the firewall configuration to see if other aspects of its operations are now botched?

FB15074003 tracks the issues noted above.

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chase.turner OP
Sep ’24

Second image is now attached.

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DTS Engineer OP
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Sep ’24
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losdelrock OP
Oct ’24

Thanks DTS Engineer, I came here to comment on the Firewall because I mentioned Beta 15.1 24B5070a on the Apple Support Forums and they sent me this after deleting my post:

"Hi losdelrock,

Thanks for participating in the Apple Support Community.

We removed your post “Mac OS Sequoia 15.0.1 - TimeMachine because it contained information about beta software.

To comment or ask questions about beta software, go to our Apple Developer Forums page:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/

Here you can share your Mac OS Sequoia 15.0.1 - TimeMachine post, make comments, and ask questions.

For more information, see the Apple Beta Software Program page:

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram

We’ve included a copy of your original post below."

Please let me know where we post Firewall issues on Beta versions of MacOS?

Thank you.

Adrian.

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losdelrock OP
Oct ’24

Anyway, cutting a long story short I changed my post on the Apple Support Forums here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255787787?answerId=260836704022&sortBy=rank&page=3#260836704022

I upgraded to Beta 15.1 24B5070a and the Firewall issue still exists.

Where can I feedback so a fix gets implemented in 15.1?

I have already used the builtin feedback tool.

Thanks very much.

Adrian.

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losdelrock OP
Oct ’24

Having done a bit of research, it may not be just the Firewall.

Privacy-->Local Network seems to not be behaving itself.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/02/local-network-privacy-on-sequoia/

Adrian.

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chase.turner OP
Oct ’24

QUESTION to the development community:

a) What terminal level commands should be used to remove the hard-wired "Allow incoming connections"?

b) What other integrity checks should I run on the firewall configuration to see if other aspects of its operations are now botched?

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chase.turner OP
Nov ’24
Accepted Answer

macOS Version 15.2 Beta (24C5073e) resolves this issue!

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