IOS new versions and network load

Mon Sep 18 08:27:20 UTC 2017

Thank you Jason!  

Big week ahead for http://as714.peeringdb.com

Cheers! -ren.provo at gmail.com

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 5:48 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3554
>> 
>> 
> apple is AS714 though, right? or are they having the trucking company do
> their delivery of bits?
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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).
>>>>> 
>> 