[EHPweb] notes with questions and action responses

Lorna A Schmid lorna at usgs.gov
Fri Jul 17 18:36:46 GMT 2009


Jeremy & Lisa this is in your court ... 

I think this is what we need to do: 

Can we CNAME origin-earthquake.usgs.gov 
to 
origin-earthquake.level3.magic-hostname.net 

which would wellness check across:
        ehp1-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov
        ehp2-earthquake.wr.usgs.gov
        ehp3-earthquake.gps.caltech.edu
        ehp4-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov 

which would all resolve to earthquake.usgs.gov 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lorna Schmid
USGS/EWeb
Infrastructure and Operations Team Leader
lorna at usgs.gov
703.648.6834 (w)
703.946.0257 (c)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happiness is when what you think, 
what you say, and what you do 
are in harmony.
   -- M. Ghandi




From:
"Culotta, Todd" <Todd.Culotta at Level3.com>
To:
'Lorna A Schmid' <lorna at usgs.gov>
Cc:
'GS Level3' <gs_level3 at usgs.gov>
Date:
07/17/2009 01:43 PM
Subject:
RE: notes with questions and action responses



Hi Lorna,
 
Any more information on this?  We can be available for a quick call to 
discuss.
 
Thanks,
Todd Culotta
Sales Engineer III
Federal Markets
Level 3 Communications
2300 Corporate Park Drive, Suite 600
Herndon, VA 20171
p: 703-234-8926
m:  703-593-7673
e: todd.culotta at level3.com


From: Lorna A Schmid [mailto:lorna at usgs.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:49 PM
To: Culotta, Todd
Cc: 'GS Level3'
Subject: RE: notes with questions and action responses
 

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. 

Lorna 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lorna Schmid
USGS/EWeb
Infrastructure and Operations Team Leader
lorna at usgs.gov
703.648.6834 (w)
703.946.0257 (c)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happiness is when what you think, 
what you say, and what you do 
are in harmony.
  -- M. Ghandi



From: 
"Culotta, Todd" <Todd.Culotta at Level3.com> 
To: 
'Lorna A Schmid' <lorna at usgs.gov>, 'GS Level3' <gs_level3 at usgs.gov> 
Date: 
07/16/2009 04:50 PM 
Subject: 
RE: notes with questions and action responses
 




Lorna, 
  
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.   
  
For example:  www.usgs.gov the origin hostname is origin-www.usgs.gov this 
will work fine. 
  
The rest have multiple origin names, where as each supername can only have 
one origin hostname to fill from. 
  
Todd Culotta
Sales Engineer III
Federal Markets
Level 3 Communications
2300 Corporate Park Drive, Suite 600
Herndon, VA 20171
p: 703-234-8926
m:  703-593-7673
e: todd.culotta at level3.com

 


From: Lorna A Schmid [mailto:lorna at usgs.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:55 PM
To: GS Level3
Subject: notes with questions and action responses 
 
 
July 16 Meeting Notes 
USGS 
Jeremy Fee 
Lisa Wald 
Scott Horvath 
Dan Winkless 
Larry McIrvin 
Greg Senko 
David Boldt 
Lorna Schmid 

Level3 
Todd Culatta 
Mark Taylor ? Customer Project Manager 
Todd D?More -- Implementation Engineer 
Libby McClary 

Dan is updating the gs_level3 at usgs.gov 
working with Libby to make sure that the Level 3 folks are in our mail 
alias.   
Lisa Wald sent the Earthquake alias. 
ACTION:  get hostnames and source servers 
CDN hostnames and 
origin servers: 

www.usgs.gov 
origin-www.usgs.gov 


earthquake.usgs.gov 
        ehp1-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov
        ehp2-earthquake.wr.usgs.gov
        ehp3-earthquake.gps.caltech.edu
        ehp4-earthquake.cr.usgs.gov 

quake.usgs.gov

      ncweb-north.wr.usgs.gov
      ncweb-den.cr.usgs.gov
      ncweb-east.er.usgs.gov

neic.usgs.gov
      neic.cr.usgs.gov 

For testing we need 
test-www.usgs.gov 
test-earthquake.usgs.gov 
       test-quake.usgs.gov 
       test-neic.usgs.gov 

To test the DNS split for Intranet and public users, we need to have 
another test CDN host 

level3.natweb.usgs.gov that points to 
level3-origin.natweb.usgs.gov 

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). 

***************** 

Create a test hostname & content page for us to CNAME to Level 3. 

Gs help dns: 
1. origin-www.usgs.gov is www.usgs.gov 
2.  supername -- test-www.usgs.gov   
Ø        Need the alias name for Level 3 

CCD ? Customer Commit Date is now set to Monday 

Apache SSI ? compare incoming hostname to some text.  Edge side include is 
what we?re looking for? 
Logic based programming available 

Can have two copies of the pages that have those internal links. 

Geoblocking or allowing content based on country code. 

Look at the referrer header 
Whole site caching vs. object caching 
Image.www.usgs.gov would house all the images that the pages needs to put 
the page together. 

USGS ACTION:  Test 
Using DNS to have all ?usgs.gov? machines directed to origin-www.usgs.gov 
and public would go to www.usgs.gov 
Access to USGS networks by Level 3 wellness testing and caching systems 
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. 
Content Freshness 
Default TTL is one year.  They do honor cache control headers to manage 
the TTL. 
Purging content method?   
Ø        Use the portal or an API cgi that you use. 

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. 
Portal Management 
1 super user and then they will set up user accounts within USGS. 
Properties = EQ, www.usgs.gov, DNS 


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lorna Schmid
USGS/EWeb
Infrastructure and Operations Team Leader
lorna at usgs.gov
703.648.6834 (w)
703.946.0257 (c)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happiness is when what you think, 
what you say, and what you do 
are in harmony.
 -- M. Ghandi 

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