[Firestarter-user] Port Forwarding Problem

[Michael J. P. <mi...@ca...>]

Hi to all. I'm running Firestarter 0.9.1 on a RH 8 box with 2 NICs and have
been struggling with port forwarding. The goal is to simply forward all http
traffic (port 80) from the firewall's external NIC to an inhouse/LAN Apache
server (port 80). Here is where things stand:

- When the test website resided on the firewall itself (with the firewall
external NIC's IP registered in DNS as the website) it was accessible from
the Internet
- On the firewall iptables was disabled from launching on boot
- On the firewall Firestarter service starts automatically at boot
- On the firewall nmap shows port 80 to be closed following a reboot
- The inhouse webserver is RH8 with Apache 2.0
- On the inhouse webserver nmap shows port 80 on the system to be open
- Inhouse test website confirmed to be accessible by its private IP from the
LAN
- No other rules exist within Firestarter
- When I attempt to access the website via domain name or by entering the IP
of the firewall's external NIC I receive an error message indicating the
site/address can't be found.

Being new to iptables and Firestarter I'm guessing it is something obvious
I'm missing. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Michael J. Preston