[CentOS] CentOS 7 - Firewall always allows outgoing packets?

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Wed, August 13, 2014 8:16 am, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Jonathan Billings wrote:
>
>> 'FirewallD' doesn't replace 'iptables' except in the sense of activated
>> system services, not the core firewall functionality.  FirewallD just
>> builds and modifies iptables rules.
>
> I often wonder if I am in a small minority of CentOS users,
> who are just running home servers of some kind.
> Most of the posters to this mailing list
> seem to be in charge of systems with hundreds if not thousands of users.
>

In my understanding, _you_ are in the majority of CentOS users. It also
looks like upstream system (RHEL) vendor composes system more suitable for
users like you. This is why there are many posts from admins working for
larger number of users have so heated discussion, as some of them feel
this new philosophy [we see in RHEL 7] is less suitable for large servers.
To summarize: in my evaluation this new incarnation of system will be well
suited for you, even better than previous versions, and I really recommend
you to keep using CentOS 7 and follow RedHat manual for RHEL 7 - someone
gave URL on this list - you quite likely will find it extremely helpful
and easy to digest.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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