Firewall question [solved]
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 10 18:34:45 UTC 2009
On 03/10/2009 06:24 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:51:59 -0700
> NoOp wrote:
>
>> Stranger things have happened with Firestarter...
>
> It turns out that the non-routables list has become out of date, and
> the website that I was trying to access was classed by Firestarter as a
> non-routable. I've replaced the list on my PC with the RESERVED and
> UNALLOCATED addresses from
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
> and all seems to be OK again. I've also contacted Firestarter, and
> re-activated a previous, fixed, launchpad bug about it being outdated.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> - Richard
Good catch! I just tried (on hardy); before enabling 'Traffic
Validation" in Advanced Options I could go to the website without any
problems. As soon as I enabled it, Firestarter blocked the IP address.
Firestarter 1.0.3 on Hardy 8.04.2 - 2.6.24-24-generic.
Do you have a link to the launchpad bug?
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