[as112-ops] DITL 2017 dates

[William F Sotomayor]

All,

Last month we announced we will be holding another DITL collection. 
As in previous years we are looking to solicit captures primarily from the 
root operators, but this need not be restricted to just them:  Any TLD 
operator including AS112 operators are encouraged to participate.  Also, 
those who agreed to contribute DITL data as part of their DNS-OARC 
membership agreements are warmly expected.

For testing your DITL upload capabilities (and we thank you for your
contribution), the test dates are (in settings.sh format):

START_T='2017-03-21 11:00:00'
STOP_T='2017-03-23 13:00:00'

Please feel free to use that as a test window or to test any time prior to
that, but the more who can participate during that test date, the better
as we'll be able to stress-test the upload servers and the whole 
eco-system.

--> The actual event itself will be:  April 11 to 13 inclusive, 2017. <--

Your settings.sh file should look like this:

START_T='2017-04-11 11:00:00'
STOP_T='2017-04-13 13:00:00'

(All times UTC)

As usual, remember to:

- Refresh your memories about what DITL is about:

           https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/data/ditl

- Ensure your patched NTP/clock sync software is functioning on your
   participating servers;

- To have a look at the latest 'ditl-' capture software suite located
   here:

           https://dnscap.dns-oarc.net/

    For those who like to live on the edge, there is also a Github version
    of dnscap at:

         https://github.com/verisign/dnscap

- And familiarise yourselves with the upload process which hasn't changed
   over the course of the years:

           https://www.dns-oarc.net/ditl/2011/

For those who would like to test and eventually use the Canadian-based 
upload server, you'll need to adjust your pcap-submit-to-oarc.sh file like 
so:

 	REMOTE=oarc-${OARC_MEMBER}@capture-e.ditl.dns-oarc.net

Note that if you do chose to participate, it's a good idea to join the
DITL mailing list where questions and discussions for the event are best
held:

          https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/ditl

Those of you who would like to do test uploads one-on-one with DNS-OARC, 
please contact admin at dns-oarc.net.

(Those of you who are members may also access the 'ditl' conference room
on the DNS-OARC jabber server.)

For those of you who have the HPN-SSH version of OpenSSH, you may elect to
have your SSH clients connect using that feature.  If you wish to test 
this feature the capture servers are enabled for it.  The servers will try 
to optimise the connection to have your transfers sped-up, subject to 
network, system and stack tuning.  For more information on how to do this, 
please refer to ESNet's Host Tuning web page for your particular 
operating system:

          https://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/

For details on HPN-SSH and patches, see:

          http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh

An example invocation used @ DNS-OARC is:

          '/usr/local/bin/ssh -caes128'

When passed to rsync.  Those who do not wish to use HPN-SSH clients will
remain unaffected and uploads will proceed as normal.

Thank you,

William