For posterity: I figured out that the standard tool for firewall 
management in Ubuntu is ufw. It translates its own (simpler) syntax into 
iptables rules, and alters the permanent configuration every time you 
add a rule through the ufw utility. It has its own init script which is 
added to the default runlevel with the command "update-rcd ufw defaults"
As was mentioned, there are other ways of doing it, but this seems 
pretty convenient to me.
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