Use of Zones

Which zone should be used?

A public WIFI network connection for example should be mainly untrusted, a wired home network connection should be fairly trusted. Select the zone that best matches the network you are using.

How to configure or add zones?

To configure or add zones, you can use any of the following firewalld configuration interfaces:

• Graphical configuration tool firewall-config
• Command line tool firewall-cmd
• Programmatic D-BUS interface. See man page FIREWALLD.DBUS(5).
• Edit configuration files. See man page FIREWALLD.ZONE(5).
  Create, copy, or edit a zone file in one of the configuration directories:
  • /etc/firewalld/zones for user created and customized configuration files.
  • /usr/lib/firewalld/zones for default and fallback configurations only.