[193423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Caching Server question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Baschak)
Mon Jan 16 18:47:51 2017
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From: Theodore Baschak <theodore@ciscodude.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:47:44 -0600
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <93F22430-7A6C-48D6-BCE9-DCC72C020337@fiberphone.co.nz>
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> On Jan 16, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Pete Mundy <pete@fiberphone.co.nz> wrote:
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> Those dual Mac Mini 1U rack-mount cases are great! Two of the =
quad-core 'server' versions of the Minis gave quite a bit of punch for =
only 1RU @ 300mm deep.
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> I have a couple of these types of builds deployed for VoIP services in =
different DCs, both with auto failover from one Mini to the other. But =
in the 6 years they've been operation we've never had any failure =
requiring use of the failover machines :)
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> Re the Apple Caching Server - I don't believe that will work at the =
ISP level. My understanding is that the clients requesting their updates =
are redirected (by Apple's own servers) to the caching server only if =
the caching server and the requesting client both appear (from Apple's =
perspective) to originate from behind the same (NAT'd) public IP =
address.
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> Pete
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I haven't ever tried to do multiple public IPs (I only enable caching =
server once inside my home network as a test), but it looks like from =
the settings window that it is possible to have more than one public IP =
using your cache.
http://imgur.com/eBT7IyX
When the "serve clients with public addresses: on other networks" =
configuration is enabled, "client configuration" button gives generated =
DNS records which were also mentioned elsewhere in this thread =
(_aaplcache._tcp 259200.<dnssearchname> TXT record per network)
Theodore Baschak - AS395089 - Hextet Systems
https://ciscodude.net/ - https://hextet.systems/
http://mbix.ca/
