Can't use internet without Firestarter running

[foska]

I have been having some trouble getting onto the Internet recently. I find that I have to have the Firestarter firewall program running to access the Internet. I upgraded to 9.10 as soon as it was available but it did not help. Anyone have any ideas on how this could be resolved?

[lovinglinux]

First, completely remove Firestarter:

sudo apt-get purge firestarter

Then cleanup your firewall rules:

sudo iptables -F
sudo iptables -X
sudo iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
sudo iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT

This should clear all firewall rules. Reboot and test it just to make sure.

If you need to setup the firewall, install gufw. Is the graphical frontend for UFW (uncomplicated Firewall), which is installed by default, but not enabled.

[foska]

Thanks. I tried it and it worked.