Lawrence Chin wrote: > I've been confused about one thing. Several days ago when I typed in the > url http://pool.sks-keyservers.net into my browser, this website called > www.kim-minh.com kept popping up instead and wouldn't let me go to > pool.sks-keyservers.net. Is this some sort of traffic hijacking or what? > Did anyone see the same thing?
Well, what's the problem? There's no 'hijacking' involved - _THAT'S_How_it's_supposed_to_work_ Kim-Minh's server is usually in the pool, as is mine. 1) pool.sks-keyservers.net is *not* some single machine. It is a collection of 20 server addresses chosen at random from a pool of 30-34 well-connected servers which is updated twice per day. (See [1]) Because of the way SKS operates, you should consider any and all servers in pool.sks-keyservers.net to be equivalent, use the pool DNS A record and not worry about which individual server your OS' resolver code returns to you. 2) Typing http://pool.sks-keyservers.net or, for that matter, http://<any keyserver name> into a browser will fail a healthy percentage of the time. The failure is not the fault of the keyserver. Of the 37 SKS servers detailed at Peter Pramberger's SKS Status page[2], only 14 listen on port 80 in addition to listening on the SKS default port of 11371. FWIW, there is no requirement that a SKS server provide an human readable web page. Most do, but it's not required. If you're set on accessing a server web page, you must specify the port as well as the specific server, not the collection name, http://<server name>:11371 [1] http://www.sks-keyservers.net/status/ [2] http://www.pramberger.at/peter/services/keyserver/network/ -- John P. Clizbe Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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