On Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:06:56 PM MST John M. Harris Jr wrote:
On Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:21:08 PM MST home user wrote:
(on 02/20/2020 1:11pm mountain time, Jack said)
router logs help me...
My system is isp -> modem -> workstation. No router at this time.
Are you running "GNOME Workstation" on that system? If so, I would recommend changing the firewall zone immediately, as everything on your system is currently open to the internet as a whole if you're running the default. The GNOME Spin does not consider security. Please be aware of this when running the GNOME Spin, as it affects any open network as well. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity
To further clarify, if you are using the GNOME variant of Fedora, the commands you'll need to run are:
Step 1: `sudo firewall-cmd --set-default-zone=public`
After this, you'll want to get the name of the primary interface. You can do this with a few commands, I recommend `ip link`. It will likely begin with 'enp', for example, 'enp0s1'.
Then you would run the following command with that interface name: `sudo firewall-cmd --change-interface=enpXsY --zone=public`
For example, `sudo firewall-cmd --change-interface=enp0s1 --zone=public'
This exact scenario is why I don't believe the GNOME Spin should have ever been allowed to effectively disable the firewall with their absurd FedoraWorkstation firewall zone.