2014-08-09 0:55 GMT+03:00 Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com>: > Hello all: > > I am looking at the documentation of the new firewalld service in CentOS 7. > It looks like no matter what I configure with it, outgoing connections are > still going to be allowed. That does not seem very secure. > > I always set my servers to default policy of DROP for everything incoming > and outgoing and then add rules to allow very specific traffic through. > > Is this possible using the new firewalld service or should I disable it and > go back to using iptables? > Yes, it is possible, check this out: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Security_Guide/sec-Disabling_firewalld.html -- Eero