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AfNOG 2013 Workshop on Network Technology

Track SS-E

Scalable Internet Services

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Introduction

This course on Scalable Internet Services is part of the AfNOG 2013 Workshop on Network Technology, held in conjunction with the AfNOG meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, in June 2013.

We use hands-on training in a well-equipped classroom over a five-day period to teach skills required for the configuration and operation of large scale Internet services.

Who should attend

Technical staff who are now providing Internet Services, or those who will be involved in the establishment and/or provisioning of a basic national Internet Services in the country.

Prerequisites

Experience using and administering *NIX Servers, Name Servers, Web Servers and Mail Servers.

Instructors

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Joe Abley JA Canada
Ayitey Bulley AB Ghana
Kevin Chege KC Kenya
Joel Jaeggli JJ US
Michuki Mwangi MM Kenya
Chris Wilson CW UK

Participants

o Frank Kwetei Quaynor			-	Ghana
o Sarah Kiden				-	Uganda
o Ian Kalanda				-	Uganda
o Greg Slippi-Mensah			-	Ghana
o Chungu Ngolwe				-	Zambia
o Mohamed Ali Ahmed			-	Somalia
o Maud Adjeley Ashong Elliot		-	Ghana
o Timothy Ola Akinfenwa			-	Nigeria
o Tumelo Mosito				-	Lesotho
o Abuty Mofya				-	Zambia
o Scholastica Musokwa			-	Tanzania
o Alieu Camara				-	The Gambia
o Osman Alhassan			-	Ghana
o Bertran Renaud			-	Seychelles
o Shula Musonda Ngosa			-	Zambia
o Oluseyi Oladele			-	Nigeria
o Mouna Zain Ahmed			-	Djibouti
o Bukola Fawole				-	Nigeria
o Grace Tyowua Mike			-	Nigeria
o Isaac Armah-Mensah			-	Ghana
o Ahmed Ibrahim Babura			-	Nigeria
o Matsiko Perez				-	Uganda
o Patriciah Kimani Nyanjau		-	Kenya
o Chewe Mutale				-	Zambia
o Nosiku Sikanyika			-	Zambia
o Robert Mayonde			-	Zambia

Timetable

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
09:30-11:00 SSE Intro DNS DNS Exim POP/IMAP
Tea Break
11:30-13:30 DNS DNS DNS Exim RADIUS
Lunch
14:30-16:30 Crypto/Security Virtualization
Load Balancing
Apache EXIM Monitoring IP Services
Tea Break
17:00-19:00 Apache Virtualization
Load Balancing
Apache DNSSEC Security & Availability
Closing Survey
Dinner
Evening Sessions (20:00-22:00) Closed Closed Closed

Details

Introduction

Ayitey Bulley

Presentation
Opening Survey
Survey Results (PDF)

DNS

Joe Abley

Fundamentals
PowerPoint
PDF
Exercise

Goal: to understand overall purpose and structure of DNS

DNS Caching and Debugging
PowerPoint
PDF
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Goal: to understand operation of a recursive nameserver

Configuring Authoritative Name Servers
PowerPoint
PDF

Goal: to properly configure an authoritative nameserver

Exercises
Exercise

Setting up authoritative name services for a domain

Delegation and Reverse DNS
PowerPoint
PDF

DNSSEC

Joe Abley

Presentation/PDF
Presentation/Keynote
Exercise/Text

DNSSEC High Level Awareness

RADIUS

Chris Wilson

Presentation/OpenOffice
Presentation/PDF

Apache

Kevin Chege

Apache Presentation/PowerPoint
Exercise1 - Apache Installation/SSL
Exercise2 - MySQL/PHP/Wordpress Install
Exercise3 - Wordpress Configuration
Additional - Working with Distfiles/PDF

Virtualization

Joel Jaeggli and Chris Wilson

Virtualization Overview (PDF/OpenOffice)
Virtualization Exercise (PDF/OpenOffice)
Virtualization with KVM (PDF/OpenOffice)

Load Balancing

Joel Jaeggli

Presentation/PDF
Presentation/OpenOffice
Exercise

Monitoring

Ayitey Bulley

Monitoring IP Services
Nagios Exercise-1
Nagios Exercise-2
Smokeping Exercise

Exim

Chris Wilson

Presentation/PDF
Presentation/OpenOffice
EICAR Anti-Virus Test File
Sample spam message

Mail

Michuki Mwangi

Introduction to POP and IMAP
Presentation and Exercise/PDF
Presentation and Exercise/PowerPoint
Presentation and Exercise/PDF
Presentation and Exercise/PowerPoint
Dovecot Basic Mysql Schema
Webmail using Squirrelmail
Presentation/PDF
Presentation/PowerPoint
Scaling mail services
Mail Server Clustering
Mail Server Scalability

Security and Availability

Joel Jaeggli

Presentation/PDF
Presentation/ODP

Closing Survey

Joel Jaeggli

Survey link (online)
Survey results (PDF)