Speak of the devil...

[mdlbear]

...and his techs will appear. My shiny new DSL from sonic.net came on mere minutes after my previous post; the AT&T tech showed up about an hour later to test the line. There was a mysterious outage after I upgraded my service from one static IP address to eight -- apparently it took a while for something to propagate. But it's working fine now: speedtest.net says I'm getting 5175Mb/s downstream, and 656Kb/s upstream. That's a bit of a step up from 325Kb/s each way on the old link. So long, PacBell SBC AT&T!

Nobody showed up to install a "home run" or an outside splitter, but as it turned out I didn't need it. All my inside wiring goes through a single point,

Darned if I know what I'll do with 8 IPs -- one will be the main gateway and web server, some of them will get used to NAT some of my inside boxen, mainly so I can ssh to them directly, and some will get used for assorted web servers. Eventually I'll probably want some for ssl (https), since certificates are tied to IP addresses.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

I wish the various places would get off their high-horses and either do away with X.509 entirely, or at least document and standardize the extensions necessary to support multiple names on a single IP.

(Note: You can always use different certificates on different port numbers, even though that has historically been the most brain-damaged way of trying to support SSL/TLS under http.)