On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:05 PM, JASON BOTHE <jbo...@me.com> wrote: > My best experience with Apple has been directly peering with them. > Definitely handles the update issue without putting strain on transit > links. Apple is very well connected. > > https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3554 > > apple is AS714 though, right? or are they having the trucking company do their delivery of bits?
> > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 17, 2017, at 21:50, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > > > > It is still there. MacMiniColo. > > > > -mel beckman > > > >> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@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_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). > >>> >
