Unfortunately I am in a situation where I need to rebuild some machines with only a Debian and a Fedora install disk to work from. With Debian, it's hard to connect to the internet since Debian doesn't like to provide a firewall in the initial install.
Here's what I tried with Debian 13: 1. install from DVD 2. go back to DVD, pull iptables .deb file (which the default install didn't set up) off DVD 3. install iptables (version number is 1.8.11, using nf_tables) 4. fix sources.list so it points back to debian.org repositories 5. go to out-of-date Ubuntu machine that can't safely connect to internet since it's no longer supported, run ufw enable, dump output of iptables-save and ip6tables-save in text files (same version of iptables) 6. use those text files on Debian machine as input to iptables-restore and ip6tables-restore 7. turn on wifi connection 8. Result: on Debian machine, Firefox can't connect to any site, although the Software app claims it is can see that all updates are up to date. Alternatively, starting at step 5, I can simply run "iptables -A INPUT -j DROP" and "ip6tables -A INPUT -j DROP" but I get the same result. What am I doing wrong? Looks like the firewall is too strict so that Firefox can't connect. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
