Firestarter 0.9.3 seems to block outgoing connections

[David M. Carney]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:55:59 +0000, Matt Smith <smith-matt at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Warty and I have installed Firestarter 0.9.3 through
> Synaptic. I have set up the firewall following the wizard but now when
> the firewall is active I cannot view web pages or check my (POP) email.
> I guess the firewall is blocking outgoing connections. I would expect
> the firewall to allow outgoing connections by default. In the manual for
> the latest version of Firestarter it describes it is possible to set the
>   policy for outgoing connections but I cannot find this option in 0.9.3
> or any reference to outgoing connections in the manual for 0.9.3.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Cheers,
> Matt.
> 
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Hmm... I use the same version on my Warty box with no problems.

Maybe you could run through the wizard page by page and tell us which
options you selected...

David

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