Well, that’s a point for Qwest
It turns out that the process of getting a static IP from Qwest is nothing more difficult that logging into your online Qwest account and going to an order page. And when you’ve ordered a static IP, you can then go to a rDNS page and set up the reverse dns properly, which means that for the first time in over a decade my home gateway maps the name to and from the IP address.
This is very nice.
It’s not going to last very long, because I got a static address so I can remove pell from the co-lo and move it into my basement (which will put mail, the inn server on pell, and my dns secondary close enough so I can hit the Big Red Switch without having to beg the co-lo into letting me into the server room) but it’s nice to be able to do who and not see someone else’s domain there on the screen.
(part of “remove pell from the co-lo” will involve building a new case & new machine (with a solid state disk,) because the big clunky 4u rackmount case will not be cluttering up my nice empty ¾ths height server rack. Anyone want to buy a 4u server case? I’ve got 5 of them, some including motherboards.)