New interfaces default to the Trusted zone. They should be moved on the Main page's Interfaces tab to the correct zone, usually Internet, and leaving any interface Trusted raises a critical Dashboard alert.

Checked 2026-09-25

Leaving any interface as a member of the Trusted zone is a misconfiguration, and FreePBX Dashboard will alert this as a critical system error.
Vendor
Sangoma
Product
FreePBX
Subsystem
Firewall module
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

Cite this note

APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Setting up FreePBX with a SIP trunk: source note freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet,
  title  = {Setting up FreePBX with a SIP trunk: source note freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet},
  note   = {Source note freepbx-sip-trunk-setup-interface-zone-internet, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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