init of firewall

[David Curtis]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:30:00 -0700
Anthony Christopher <sart057 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to this mailing list.
> 
> I have a laptop  I use for surfing the internet and email that gets its IP
> address from my ISP.
> I am using ubuntu Intrepid with everything updated as of two days ago.
> My iptables firewall script expects DNS to be available when it starts up.
> Scheduling my firewall to init after NetworkManager fails.
> My firewall script fails in such a way that internet connections fail
> without the DNS information.
> If I restart my firewall from a user terminal my firewall seems to configure
> properly and I can surf the web and get my email.
> After searching for possible solutions, I tried renaming my firewall script
> to start with a 50 and putting it in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d.
> This also failed. I would like to be able to init my firewall without a
> manual restart.
> 

Anthony,

I use arno-iptables-firewall from the repos, a script that can be managed/set up with debconf. Not suggesting that you use it, but if you install it, you can see how it sets itself up in /etc/init.d/. The configuration files are in /etc/arno-iptables-firewall/ and the script itself in /usr/sbin/.

HTH,
Dave