Find (View) Active Zones in Firewalld on CentOS 7

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Pre-Flight Check

• These instructions are intended for finding (viewing) active zones in Firewalld on CentOS 7 via the command line.
• I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 7 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

All network interfaces exist within a zone. They can be located in the default zone or split into other zones. Zones enhance an administrator’s capability to define trusts and restrict network traffic.

Find (View) Active Zones in Firewalld

firewall-cmd --get-active-zones public interfaces: eth0 In this case there is one network interface: eth0. That interface is in the public zone.