init of firewall

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:30 PM, 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.

I'm guessing you have your own iptables script?  Try putting it in
/etc/network/if-up.d/ (make sure it's executable).

Chris