Re: IOS new versions and network load

[Robert Perkins <rperkins () macstadium com>]

MacMiniColo is now part of MacStadium, we have tons of Mac Minis and Mac Pros in Las Vegas NV, Atlanta GA and Dublin 
Ireland. We are currently moving out of SWITCH's NAP2 and into zColo Las Vegas. Our speciality it private clouds on the 
Mac platform for CI/CD environments.

360 degrees views
cole aisle: https://kuula.co/post/7lkFV
mini racks: https://kuula.co/post/7lkXV

On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:53 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org<mailto:mel () beckman org>> wrote:

It is still there. MacMiniColo.

-mel beckman

On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org<mailto:mel () 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 () vaxination ca<mailto:jfmezei_nanog () 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).