Checking the service shows the following:
firewalld.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
Active: inactive (dead)
So i tried forcing it to shutdown
[root@localhost ~]# ps aux |grep firewalld
root 1414 0.1 0.5 363088 31968 ? Ssl 19:40 0:01 /usr/bin/python 2 -Es /usr/sbin/firewalld
root 1737 0.0 0.0 112808 968 pts/0 R+ 20:03 0:00 grep --color=au to firewalld
It laughed at me...
[root@localhost ~]# firewall-cmd --state
running
What is going on here?