diff --git a/group_vars/all.sample b/group_vars/all.sample
index 7d528da4f..0f7d1abbf 100644
--- a/group_vars/all.sample
+++ b/group_vars/all.sample
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ dummy:
 # Ceph ports are blocked by a firewall. If the machine running ansible
 # cannot reach the Ceph ports for some other reason, you may need or
 # want to set this to False to skip those checks.
-#check_firewall: True
+#check_firewall: False
 
 # This variable determines if ceph packages can be updated.  If False, the
 # package resources will use "state=present".  If True, they will use