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One cause for "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name" on Ubuntu

Kim Klotz
January 27, 2015Software engineer at makandra GmbH

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.

Posted by Kim Klotz to makandra dev (2015-01-27 19:00)