[CentOS] CentOS 7 - Firewall always allows outgoing packets?
Earl Ramirez
earlaramirez at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 01:13:28 UTC 2014
On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 16:55 -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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Hello Neil,
You can check out the following document
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/sec-Using_Firewalls.html
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