On Aug 9, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Systemd, firewalld... Linux from what formerly was "UNIX-like" becomes "MS
> Windows-like". This is what you will hear from everybody fleeing Linux (I
> for one started gradually moving servers to FreeBSD a while back).

While the lack of outbound rules is a rather big missing feature, I don't 
consider 'firewalld' a step back.  Just like systemd, firewalld lets you break 
up rules into small chunks, scoped to a particular service or zone, which makes 
it easier to include a firewall rule in your RPM package or Configuration 
Management-managed service.  Right now, I jump through a bunch of hoops in my 
CM environment to manage a monolithic /etc/sysconfig/iptables file on our 
6.5-based servers and workstations, and I'm looking forward to using firewalld 
in 7.x.

I really don't see how this is *more* like Windows behavior.  To me, it feels 
like a step in the right direction.  And it's not like CentOS7 disables the 
ability to use iptables, or makes it incredibly difficult to switch.


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Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org>


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