From: Greg Russell on
I feel we have a fairly restrictive firewall in place, but my attempts to
allow DHCP from a range of IP addresses seem to fail.

Using a simple script I wrote, we see:

Resolved_Address Packets Bytes Protocol(s) Dest.Port(s)
....
148.78.249.200 3 560 UDP 54366
Totals 4 0.7KB for search pattern "UNSOLICITED"

The ruleset is:

*filter
:INPUT DROP [wlan0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i wlan0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i wlan0 -p udp -s 148.78.249.200/28 -m state --state NEW -j
ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i wlan0 -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix
UNSOLICITED:
COMMIT

These types of drops seem to cause DNS delays fairly often How might I
fix this please?