GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 172754
Routable addresses listed as non-routable
Last modified: 2011-12-06 06:16:15 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu 5.04 While the firestarter firewall is running, attempt to open a web browser connection to www.haloscan.com . The connection will hang and be reported as blocked in the event log. Removing the line '72.0.0.0/8' from /etc/firestarter/non-routables allows connections to www.haloscan.com (72.9.234.77), which leads me to believe that some routable addresses are incorrectly being listed as non-routable
72.0.0.0/8 was assigned to ARIN in Aug 04
I forgot to mention that the current IANA address space assignments can be found at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space This list doesn't go into the subclasses for things 127 and above, but it is a helpful guide.
Mostly Fixed in CVS. The IANA blocklist usually gets updated each major release, i'll attach a patch which updates the current CVS tree with the latest assignments as of 01-03-2006, which will hopefully go into the next patch release. Thank you for your bug report.
Created attachment 63274 [details] [review] Non-Routable Address Mask Update for FS from CVS 2006-03-01
CVS version of firestarter doesn't have fixed this problem http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/firestarter/scripts/non-routables?rev=1.6&view=log
Created attachment 77281 [details] [review] Actual version of non-routables - patch agains CVS version
Created attachment 77282 [details] Actual version of non-routables
firestarter development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. I contacted Tomas Junnonen (majix@iki.fi) because he is listed as Developer on project page but didn't get any response. I found firestarter on fedora wiki [1] under deprecated packages so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecated_packages