<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Todd,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We have a temporary hostname for testing
the split DNS;</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please fetch content from;</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">level3-origin.natweb.usgs.gov</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And let us know what to CNAME the official
name of</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">level3.natweb.usgs.gov to in
our DNS.</font>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Other team members will be getting back
to you with their pieces.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
--
David Boldt<br>
</font>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Culotta, Todd" <Todd.Culotta@Level3.com></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">'Lorna A Schmid' <lorna@usgs.gov></font>
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<td valign=top><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">'GS Level3' <gs_level3@usgs.gov></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">07/17/2009 01:43 PM</font>
<tr valign=top>
<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">RE: notes with questions and action
responses</font></table>
<br>
<hr noshade>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">Hi Lorna,</font>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"> </font>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">Any more information on this?
We can be available for a quick call to discuss.</font>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"> </font>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">Thanks,</font>
<p><font size=2 color=red face="Arial"><b>Todd Culotta</b></font><font size=1 face="Arial"><b><br>
Sales Engineer III<br>
Federal Markets<br>
Level 3 Communications<br>
2300 Corporate Park Drive, Suite 600<br>
Herndon, VA 20171<br>
p: 703-234-8926<br>
m: 703-593-7673<br>
e: todd.culotta@level3.com</b></font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><b><u><br>
</u></b></font><a href=blocked::http://www.level3.com/></a>
<div align=center>
<br>
<hr></div>
<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Lorna A Schmid [</font><a href=mailto:lorna@usgs.gov><font size=2 face="Tahoma">mailto:lorna@usgs.gov</font></a><font size=2 face="Tahoma">]
<b><br>
Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:49 PM<b><br>
To:</b> Culotta, Todd<b><br>
Cc:</b> 'GS Level3'<b><br>
Subject:</b> RE: notes with questions and action responses</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
I guess we need to figure this out quickly: origin-www.usgs.gov is
a CNAME to an Akamai identity which then incorporates wellness checking
against 9 USGS NatWeb Web servers. I'm guessing we should be able
to do something like this for the earthquake sites. We'll have to
let Jeremy speak up on this.</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<br>
</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Lorna</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<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>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Happiness is when what you think, <br>
what you say, and what you do <br>
are in harmony.<br>
-- M. Ghandi</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><br>
<br>
</font>
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<tr valign=top>
<td width=10%><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<td width=89%><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Culotta, Todd"
<Todd.Culotta@Level3.com></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">'Lorna A Schmid' <lorna@usgs.gov>,
'GS Level3' <gs_level3@usgs.gov></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<tr valign=top>
<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">07/16/2009 04:50 PM</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<tr valign=top>
<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">RE: notes with questions and action
responses</font></table>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<div align=center>
<br>
<hr noshade></div>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><br>
<br>
</font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
Lorna,</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
For the Origin Servers below, Each Supername can only cache fill
from a single Origin hostname. It is not possible to fill from multiple
hostnames has you have below. </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
For example: </font><a href=http://www.usgs.gov/><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">
the origin hostname is origin-www.usgs.gov this will work fine.</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial"><br>
The rest have multiple origin names, where as each supername can only have
one origin hostname to fill from. <br>
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<p><font size=2 color=red face="Arial"><b>Todd Culotta</b></font><font size=1 face="Arial"><b><br>
Sales Engineer III<br>
Federal Markets<br>
Level 3 Communications<br>
2300 Corporate Park Drive, Suite 600<br>
Herndon, VA 20171<br>
p: 703-234-8926<br>
m: 703-593-7673<br>
e: todd.culotta@level3.com</b></font><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u><br>
</u></font><a href=blocked::http://www.level3.com/></a>
<div align=center>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<br>
<hr></div>
<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma"><b><br>
From:</b> Lorna A Schmid [</font><a href=mailto:lorna@usgs.gov><font size=2 color=blue face="Tahoma"><u>mailto:lorna@usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Tahoma">]
<b><br>
Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:55 PM<b><br>
To:</b> GS Level3<b><br>
Subject:</b> notes with questions and action responses</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<br>
<br>
</font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>July 16 Meeting Notes</i></b></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>USGS</b> <br>
Jeremy Fee <br>
Lisa Wald <br>
Scott Horvath <br>
Dan Winkless <br>
Larry McIrvin <br>
Greg Senko <br>
David Boldt <br>
Lorna Schmid <b><br>
<br>
Level3</b> <br>
Todd Culatta <br>
Mark Taylor – Customer Project Manager <br>
Todd D’More -- Implementation Engineer <br>
Libby McClary <b><br>
<br>
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>
<br>
working with Libby to make sure that the Level 3 folks are in our mail
alias. </b> <b><br>
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><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>CDN hostnames and <br>
origin servers:</b> </font><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u><br>
<br>
</u></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">
<br>
origin-www.usgs.gov <br>
</font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><br>
<br>
earthquake.usgs.gov</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><br>
ehp1-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov<br>
ehp2-earthquake.wr.usgs.gov<br>
ehp3-earthquake.gps.caltech.edu<br>
ehp4-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><br>
<br>
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><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<br>
<br>
For testing we need <br>
test-www.usgs.gov <br>
test-</font><font size=2 face="Courier New">earthquake.usgs.gov</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<br>
test-</font><font size=2 face="Courier New">quake.usgs.gov</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<br>
test-</font><font size=2 face="Courier New">neic.usgs.gov</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
<b><br>
<br>
To test the DNS split for Intranet and public users, we need to have another
test CDN host</b> <br>
<br>
level3.natweb.usgs.gov that points to <br>
level3-origin.natweb.usgs.gov <br>
<br>
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). <br>
<br>
***************** <br>
<br>
Create a test hostname & content page for us to CNAME to Level 3. <br>
<br>
Gs help dns: <br>
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">
<br>
2. supername -- test-www.usgs.gov </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings"><br>
Ø </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> Need the alias name for
Level 3 <br>
<br>
CCD – Customer Commit Date is now set to Monday <br>
<br>
Apache SSI – compare incoming hostname to some text. Edge side include
is what we’re looking for… <br>
Logic based programming available <br>
<br>
Can have two copies of the pages that have those internal links. <br>
<br>
Geoblocking or allowing content based on country code. <br>
<br>
Look at the referrer header </font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Whole site caching vs. object caching</i></b></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</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. <b><br>
<br>
USGS ACTION: Test </b><br>
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 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<p><font size=4 face="Arial"><b><i>Access to USGS networks by Level 3 wellness
testing and caching systems</i></b></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</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><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Default TTL is one year. They
do honor cache control headers to manage the TTL. <br>
Purging content method? </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings"><br>
Ø </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Wingdings">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> Use the portal or an API
cgi that you use. <br>
<br>
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><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">1 super user and then they will
set up user accounts within USGS. <br>
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 <br>
</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<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>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Happiness is when what you think, <br>
what you say, and what you do <br>
are in harmony.<br>
-- M. Ghandi</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<p>
<p>