A real toughie

[reideemed]

I have domain.com registered with dyndns.org as a custom dns account. This means I can add and remove subdomains at will (basically making wildcard DNS enabled).
At home I have a Mandrake8 install working as an internet gateway for 2 Win2k machines.
Mdk connects to the internet via an Alcatel USB ADSL modem and using the wizards in the mandrake control center ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) is working very well (get 10k/sec extra d/l bandwidth and 7k/sec u/l bandwidth over the same job done by Windows 2K).

This is what I 'want' to do:
I send a request win2k#1.domain.com. Linux picks up on the fact that it is a subdomain and forwards it to windows 2k machine number 1.
Is it possible ? If so, is it completely out of my reach dyue to my inexperience ?

[jumpedintothefire]

Maybe setup apache on the firewall, it can deal with virtual domains then just redirect to to your same ip but different port numbers
that are port forward to each win2k server. I know how to do the port forwarding. It's the apache that I'm not sure about...

Any one else??

[Jetmech]

Found this in a post on one of dyndns.org newsgroups, looks like it'll help those folks having port 80 blocked by the ISP:

1) Set record www.domainname.com (http://www.domainname.com) to be an A record, if is not already
(mine used to be a CNAME).
2) Create a different A or CNAME record for your webserver (such as
server.domainname.com), if you do not have that already.
3) Set the host www to be offline in DynDns.
4) Set the offline redirect target to be the host created in (2) and the
new port (such as http://server.domainname.com:newport/).