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_na...@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). >
