I can confirm that this issue is related to firewalling! firehol works somewhat better than firestarter (or so it seems): It lets me get a address and the interface comes up, but afterwards DNS requests are blocked!
-- fails to connect in feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/75237 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
