It is still there. MacMiniColo. -mel beckman
> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Mel Beckman <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> 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). >>
