[195921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS new versions and network load
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fake Name (hintss))
Fri Sep 22 05:57:48 2017
X-Original-To: Nanog@nanog.org
From: "Fake Name (hintss)" <hintsss@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46236E79-198B-4497-A4F7-09CEC3343CA7@beckman.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 21:09:32 -0700
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
My understanding was that macminicolo stopped accepting new customers in =
Switch after they got bought out?
> On Sep 17, 2017, at 19:50, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>=20
> It is still there. MacMiniColo.
>=20
> -mel beckman
>=20
>> 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@vaxination.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
