Curious as mentioned if anyone doing this on scale? I kind of doubt it but love to hear otherwise. My assumption is this is more Enterprise focused than ISP
Paul Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > We've been looking into the caching server bit lately given that we're not > due to get an official Apple node for at least another year yet. > > It looks very difficult to manage, given the DNS TXT records and domain > search fields. If it was as simple as entering the supported IP ranges, it'd > be a lot easier to implement. > > The caching service does support a lot more than content than "once a year" > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675 > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> > To: "Eduardo Schoedler" <lis...@esds.com.br> > Cc: Nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2017 6:43:50 PM > Subject: Re: IOS new versions and network load > >> 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). > >