On 05/26/2009 05:48 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I'm a satisfied user of an SKS keyserver, but have not really encountered > serious trouble with subkeys.pgp.net in the past, so I'm not against the > change but also not explicitly in favour of it. > > What is the problem exactly with subkeys.pgp.net?
My experience is that subkeys.pgp.net has many more non-responsive
nodes, and that pool.sks-keyservers.net is more active in clearing out
non-responsive keyservers from its round-robin DNS.
Of course, this could change at the whim of the admins of either pool,
but the recent history of the pools seems to be that sks-keyservers is
better-managed.
For example, try:
for ks in $(dig +short subkeys.pgp.net); do
if (printf "GET /pks/lookup\r\n\r\n" | nc $ks 11371 >/dev/null) ; then
echo $ks success
fi
done
and repeat for the IP addresses in pool.sks-keyservers.net.
with subkeys.pgp.net right now, i get 1 failure, 5 successes. with
pool.sks-keyservers.net, i get 10 successes.
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