diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index cfdcbbf..2920855 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ impl ZoneConfig {
         let path = confy::get_configuration_file_path(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "interfaces").expect("Something went wrong with confy");
         let zones_dir = path.parent().expect("Something went wrong with confy").join("zones.d/");
 
-        let zones = fs::read_dir(zones_dir).unwrap();
+        let zones = fs::read_dir(zones_dir).expect("Directory creation handling does not yet exist");
+
 
         let mut zone_configs: Vec<Self> = vec![];
 
@@ -106,7 +107,9 @@ impl ZoneConfig {
                     false => eprintln!("[WARN] {warn_msg}"),
                 }
             }
-            else {
+            else if !path.file_name().expect("Directories should have been filtered out by the leading if")
+                .to_str().expect("Conversion to str should not fail for a file name")
+                .starts_with('.') {
                 let zone_config_path = format!("zones.d/{}", path.file_stem()
                     .expect("stem could not be extracted from filename").to_str()
                     .expect("&OsStr could not be converted to &str"));