I've recently installed Red Hat 8 as a server/router.  I've successfully
configured IPTables to do NAT for my internal network. But now I also need
to allow users to request pages from my web server.

My setup:  1 Win2K server (web/email), 1 W2K workstation, and 1 Linux server
(two NICs).
I need to allow web/email/ftp access to my server (ip 192.168.0.15), and be
able to browse the Internet from both internal computers.  My workstation
should be able to see the server through it's domain name.

I suspect I'm going to need SNAT instead of Masquerading, but need some
guidance.

As an added bonus/difficulty, my DNS is dynamic.  I do DNS hosting through
superreal.com, and they dynamically detect my IP address and modify the
appropriate A record.  When I was using RRAS on the W2K server (using my
server as my router), this was working fine.  As soon as I introduced the
Linux router (because it's more stable, and less troublesome in terms of
browsing the web), I lost my DNS setup.  Any tips on how to configure this?

Oh, I should mention that the RH box doesn't have X Windows installed.  All
configuration is done at the command line.  (using VIM to create scripts).

My research hasn't turned up anything very clear on how to do either the
server hosting and NAT, or on the DNS issue (haven't looked into this one
tooooo much yet...).  I did look at IPCop and Smoothwall - they sound like
they'll do what I need, but they refuse to recognize my second network card
(two PCI DLinks/rtl8139).

That all said, I'm a relative newbie to using Linux at this level.  I'm
slowly finding out where files reside, and how to configure the box at the
command line.  So, please include details in any response.  Thanks.

Any help, suggestions, or links to references are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Shawn Grover

PS.  I can forward my firewall script to you if needed, but it's a basic NAT
configuration right now.

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