IOS new versions and network load

Mon Sep 18 04:48:45 UTC 2017

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:05 PM, JASON BOTHE <jbothe at me.com> wrote:

> My best experience with Apple has been directly peering with them.
> Definitely handles the update issue without putting strain on transit
> links. Apple is very well connected.
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> https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3554
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apple is AS714 though, right? or are they having the trucking company do
their delivery of bits?

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> Sent from my iPhone
> > On Sep 17, 2017, at 21:50, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> >>>
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