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 <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).
>>>
