IOS new versions and network load

Mon Sep 18 02:50:37 UTC 2017

It is still there. MacMiniColo.

 -mel beckman

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
> 
> There used to be a Mac mini "hotel" at Switch networks in Vegas. I think it's still there.
> 
> -mel 
> 
>>> On Sep 17, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2017-09-17 19:37, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
>>> 
>>> Server is an app now, any MacOS can have it running.
>> 
>> But do carriers/ISPs really want to deal with a rack unfriendly Mac Mini
>> or iMac at a carrier hotel?  If the Server App could run on Linux, or if
>> OS-X could boot on standard servers, perhaps, it it seems to be a very
>> bad fit in carrier/enterprise environments.
>> 
>>> Implementation will be a little tricky, because you need your
>>> customers to look a record in your domain.
>> 
>> 
>> I've tried reading some about it.
>> The cache server app registers with Apple its existence and the IP
>> address ranges it serves
>> 
>> When a client wants to download new IOS version, Apple checked and finds
>> that the client's IP is served by the caching server whose "local" IP is
>> a.b.c.d (akaL the inside NAT IP address). Tells client to get version of
>> software from that IP address.
>> 
>> The DNS TXT records are used by the Caching Server to get the list of IP
>> blocks it can serve.  (not needed in the target small office
>> environments where everyone is on same subnet and the caching server can
>> tell the apple serves the one subnet it seves).
>> 