Apparently Amazon Prime members can watch videos on Xbox now.

Okay, DNS services are making my head hurt, so I'm going to check and see if anyone here has been through this.

I'm currently setting up an OS X Lion Server in the office. I want to expose some of the services on this server to the internet. If I had a static IP this would be simple, alas, I do not, and the amount of money that it would take to covert my connection over to a static IP is prohibitive.

As a result I'm planning to set up the service through a Dynamic DNS provider like dyn.com. I use them to proved a connection to my filemaker server on my desktop and it's been working great. The problem is I'm just getting confused on what I can set up.

For my filemaker server I'm just using one of the dyn.com free hostnames, so my server is something like diablo.biz.dyndns.com. Since it's just a link that we use internally it's been fine. Now that I'm putting more services online and I may eventually want to use part of this to expose an FTP section to clients I'd like to have all of this work through a subdomain off of my diablosound.com domain. Something like server.diablosound.com seems like a fair option. The thing that I'm not clear on is how to get this all setup without running the risk of disrupting my other services. My Diablo Sound website is hosted through dreamhost, and they also do my domain name registry. Am I fine using a subdomain from this domain name with another services like dyn.com?

So yeah, anyone have experience with something like this?

Can you just forward the subdomain to your dynamic dns address?

We had a bad electrical storm last Wednesday and several things in my house are now fried (outlets, freezer, sprinkler system). Since Wednesday, my Internet has been weird. Normally it works well consistently but since Wednesday it has not worked at times but then been fine other times. Can a router (mine is a time capsule) work intermittently? It's seems like it should either work or not but I'm getting frustrated with the randomness.

Yeah, it can flap if it's been damaged. Hardware can do all sorts of funky things. Could be upstream if the service provider is having problems since the storm, so you might want to give them a call and see if there any known issues.

It's possible your cable or phone lines were damaged too. As an example of how random it can be, when my house was hit by lightning, it fried the modem through the phone line, but the rest of the computer was fine. It also took out the television; vcr; all the phones; the dryer (which was running) but not washer; and, in a completely random gesture, the toaster.

Gud, it is looking like I can do that. I'm now working out how I go about configuring thing on both the Dreamhost end as well as the dyn.com and and then it appears I can also do a configuration on the main airport extreme in the system to deal with the automatic updating. I'm mainly being extra cautious because I know that a DNS configuration error can bring my whole connection down.

Drew, I do DNS in my sleep. If you want, I can check your configuration before you deploy anything. Or if you want to wait a couple of weeks, I can set it up for you.

Apple Keynote day!

I’ve got this and this open in my browser.

Nice. I am hopeful about new MacBook Air announcements. Mine is due for an upgrade and I want a retina display.