On 19/09/13 03:49, John York wrote: > From our friends at the ISC StormCenter. I wonder how long it takes to get > registered with the mother ship.
A bit late, but the caching server only works for devices running iOS 7, so it wouldn't have helped with the iOS 6->7 upgrade storm. The only exception is upgrades performed on from a computer using iTunes 11.0.2. For future iOS upgrades it should work, provided you are NATting all clients to the same IP as the caching server. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/macenterprise/BzUAeNDN4lo > -----Original Message----- > From: Swa Frantzen - ISC [mailto:isc@ ] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:39 PM > To: John York > Subject: Re: iOS 7 update available at 1PM > > They would contact your server! > > http://nbalonso.com/os-x-server-caching/#comments > > explains how it works: apple redirects the clients to your cache if the > request comes from an IP address you're registered for. > No configuration at all needed on the client: apple sends the clients to you. > > Swa > > To install it: use any mac, add the OS X Server app from the app store (costs > a few dollars, guess around 20$ or so (I only see prices in EURO) Once you > have that, you can enable the "cache service" > > It'll register with apple and apple will redirect clients on your network to > the cache instead of their servers when it recognizes the source IP as the > same as the registered cache. > There's no need to configure anything on the devices themselves. > > Advanced configurations might be needed on more complex networks. See here > for command line options: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5590 > Esp. if you have multiple outside IP addresses, or internal firewalls between > the clients and the server, ... you need to do more than just turn on the > service. > > Worst case (in a .edu setting I guess it might be common, you'll need to NAT > the clients if they connect to apple to the same outside IP as the server) > > You can have multiple caching servers - but even a single mac mini can > offload quite a bit of you outside networks. -- James Andrewartha Network & Projects Engineer Christ Church Grammar School Claremont, Western Australia Ph. (08) 9442 1757 Mob. 0424 160 877 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
