[195859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS new versions and network load
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Mon Sep 18 05:22:47 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 02:47:46 +0000
In-Reply-To: <7d0e821f-5778-6fbc-d39f-f5f772a6e6f1@vaxination.ca>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
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There used to be a Mac mini "hotel" at Switch networks in Vegas. I think it=
's still there.
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> On Sep 17, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxinatio=
n.ca> wrote:
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>> On 2017-09-17 19:37, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
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>> Server is an app now, any MacOS can have it running.
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> 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.
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>> Implementation will be a little tricky, because you need your
>> customers to look a record in your domain.
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> I've tried reading some about it.
> The cache server app registers with Apple its existence and the IP
> address ranges it serves
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> 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.
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> 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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