Debian 12 (Bookworm) release and upgrading

I looked into /etc/firewalld, I found:

  • firewalld.conf, from today
  • firewalld.conf.dpkg-old, from 29 January, perhaps when I last reinstalled
  • firewalld.conf.old is from 2021

I compared filrewalld.conf and firewalld.conf.dpkg-old and noticed that DefaultZone=public in firewalld.conf was instead DefaultZone=external in firewalld.conf.dpg-old.

I changed DefaultZone to external in firewalld.conf and restarted firewalld.service (systemctl restart firewalld.service) and now, I can access the web interface again.

This allowed me to run diagnostics and see that everything is ok.

So perhaps my upgrade is ok, the only issue was the firewall? I don’t know whether I got the solution right.

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