[195853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS new versions and network load
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Mon Sep 18 04:47:48 2017
X-Original-To: Nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 02:50:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <30148F54-0975-4168-AC3A-2F7B518B4493@beckman.org>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
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It is still there. MacMiniColo.
-mel beckman
> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>=20
> There used to be a Mac mini "hotel" at Switch networks in Vegas. I think =
it's still there.
>=20
> -mel=20
>=20
>>> On Sep 17, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxinat=
ion.ca> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On 2017-09-17 19:37, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Server is an app now, any MacOS can have it running.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>>> Implementation will be a little tricky, because you need your
>>> customers to look a record in your domain.
>>=20
>>=20
>> I've tried reading some about it.
>> The cache server app registers with Apple its existence and the IP
>> address ranges it serves
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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).
>>=20
