I couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server:

# /sbin/iptables -I INPUT ....
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name

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The cause was that two modules weren't loaded: xt_multiport and xt_comment. Normally Ubuntu loads them automatically, but not this time due to another problem.