[Firestarter-user] Re: Firestarter 0.9.1 locks up

[EJ N. <ej...@ya...>]

>From: Lance Capser <lmcapser@sp...> 
> Firestarter 0.9.1 locks up   
>2003-03-18 15:37  
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> Greetings, Programs!
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> I haven't seen this mentioned on the mailing list
>yet, so I thought I'd
> post.  I am running firestarter 0.9.1 on a redhat
>7.3 system.  I have a
> typical dial-up connection through an ISP and I use
>firestarter to run
> my host as a masquerading server so I can browse
>from a couple other
> computers connected through a local ethernet setup. 
>My problem occurs
>(I think) when I get kicked off my ISP and my system
>automatically
> reconnects.  When this happens, the firestarter GUI
>locks up (blanks out
> - no response) and must be killed and restarted. 
>The firewall itself
> doesn't update either, so I'm effectively locked off
>the network
> (probably due to the change in local IP addresses)
>until I kill
> firestarter and reload it.  I'd be happy to provide
>any other info or
> run tests to help find out what is causing this.  If
>I could just get
> firestarter to keep the firewall up and running
after
> disconnect/reconnect, all my connection problems
>would be solved ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lance Capser
> -- 
> Lance Capser <lmcapser@sp...>
> Spectek, LLC


I had this problem happen the first time I ran
firestarter. The best guess I can offer as to why this
happened is because you configured the firewall to
block port 6000 (X server). This is what I did, this
is how I got the system to lock. I had to go back to
console, uninstall firestarter, start X again,
reinstall firestarter and change the firewall rule by
adding both localhost and my internal IP address to
trusted hosts. After that, it worked like a charm. Why
it was so fussy about that, I have no idea. I use it
at home now :)

Hope this helps!

EJ Nelson
CCNA

 


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