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<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>July 16 Meeting Notes</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>USGS</b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Jeremy Fee</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Lisa Wald</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Scott Horvath</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Dan Winkless</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Larry McIrvin</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Greg Senko</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">David Boldt</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Lorna Schmid</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Level3</b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Todd Culatta</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Mark Taylor – Customer Project
Manager</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Todd D’More -- Implementation
Engineer</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Libby McClary</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Dan is updating the </b></font><a href=mailto:gs_level3@usgs.gov><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><b><u>gs_level3@usgs.gov</u></b></font></a><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>working with Libby to make sure
that the Level 3 folks are in our mail alias. </b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Lisa Wald sent the Earthquake
alias.</b></font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>ACTION: get hostnames and source
servers</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>CDN hostnames and </b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>origin servers:</b></font>
<br>
<br><a href=http://www.usgs.gov><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">origin-www.usgs.gov</font>
<br>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>earthquake.usgs.gov</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>ehp1-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov<br>
ehp2-earthquake.wr.usgs.gov<br>
ehp3-earthquake.gps.caltech.edu<br>
ehp4-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>quake.usgs.gov<br>
<br>
ncweb-north.wr.usgs.gov<br>
ncweb-den.cr.usgs.gov<br>
ncweb-east.er.usgs.gov<br>
<br>
neic.usgs.gov<br>
neic.cr.usgs.gov</font></tt>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">For testing we need </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">test-www.usgs.gov</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">test-</font><tt><font size=2>earthquake.usgs.gov</font></tt>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> test-</font><tt><font size=2>quake.usgs.gov</font></tt>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> test-</font><tt><font size=2>neic.usgs.gov</font></tt>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>To test the DNS split for Intranet
and public users, we need to have another test CDN host</b></font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">level3.natweb.usgs.gov that points
to</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">level3-origin.natweb.usgs.gov</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">In our internal DNS .usgs.gov users
will go to level3-origin.natweb.usgs.gov and public DNS will go to the
level 3 CNAME (provided by Mark D’Amore @ Level 3).</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">*****************</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Create a test hostname & content
page for us to CNAME to Level 3.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Gs help dns: </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">1. origin-www.usgs.gov is </font><a href=http://www.usgs.gov><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">2. supername -- test-www.usgs.gov
</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Wingdings">Ø </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Need
the alias name for Level 3</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">CCD – Customer Commit Date is
now set to Monday </font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Apache SSI – compare incoming
hostname to some text. Edge side include is what we’re looking for…
</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Logic based programming available
</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Can have two copies of the pages
that have those internal links.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Geoblocking or allowing content
based on country code.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Look at the referrer header </font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Whole site caching vs. object caching</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Image.www.usgs.gov would house all
the images that the pages needs to put the page together.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>USGS ACTION: Test </b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Using DNS to have all “usgs.gov”
machines directed to origin-www.usgs.gov and public would go to </font><a href=www.usgs.gov><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">www.usgs.gov</font></a>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Access to USGS networks by Level 3 wellness
testing and caching systems</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Need to further discuss the requirement
to have a known set of Level3 servers allowed into the USGS network. Either
ip subnets or a known number of servers. </font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Content Freshness</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Default TTL is one year. They
do honor cache control headers to manage the TTL.</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Purging content method? </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Wingdings">Ø </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Use
the portal or an API cgi that you use.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Are there query strings that generate
unique per visitor parameters. Passing a session ID? If yes,
there is a workaround to optimize the caching of that content.</font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Portal Management</i></b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">1 super user and then they will
set up user accounts within USGS.</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Properties = EQ, </font><a href=http://www.usgs.gov><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">,
DNS</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Lorna Schmid<br>
USGS/EWeb<br>
Infrastructure and Operations Team Leader<br>
lorna@usgs.gov<br>
703.648.6834 (w)<br>
703.946.0257 (c)<br>
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Happiness is when what you think, <br>
what you say, and what you do <br>
are in harmony.<br>
-- M. Ghandi<br>
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