dnsmasq takes care of so many headaches for a small network, this problem was really killing me since firestarter is probably the best gui front-end to iptables I've found.
But the above problem was plaguing me and the fix to user-pre above didn't seem to help. In case anyone does what I did, I want to post the solution. I cut and pated the above-line from my browser into the user-pre file and it didn't work. What I finally discovered after banging my head on this one for several days was that the --sport and --dport argument got converted to and en-dash or some such non-ascii character by the browser and were invalid. When you past the above, make sure to change them! I found this by running "firestarter --start" from the command line, which will echo all the iptables errors to the console. I found several other problems with my firestarter configuration this way as well. For example, I found that it was unable to resolve the "hostnames" I used in several rules, so they weren't getting into the firewall. I had to hard-code IP addresses instead. I hope this helps someone else. Regards, ded -- dnsmasq's dhcp blocked to clients by firestarter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242869 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs