Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
> > *PLONK* > > Could someone please do me a kindness [...] Phil, Have you ever seen this lovely sign? :-) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Trolls.jpg Gabor ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/ma

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Phil Pennock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-04-19 at 02:21 +0200, Simon Lange wrote: > Am 18.04.2014 23:16, schrieb Phil Pennock: > > -Phil > > *PLONK* Could someone please do me a kindness and pass on a message to Mr Lange? Maintaining a keyserver peering requires the ability to co

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.04.2014 23:24, schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > On 04/18/2014 04:42 PM, Simon Lange wrote: >> "bad ppl" could pretend offering a public service using my machines they >> dont own nor they administre nor they run. my machines would support >> that

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.04.2014 23:39, schrieb Martin Papik: > > By the way, Phil's email explains why it's required, and now I > understand why it's a true requirement, at least for servers in the > pool. For non pool servers it doesn't matter. since i only talked a

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.04.2014 23:16, schrieb Phil Pennock: > On 2014-04-18 at 20:24 +0200, Simon Lange wrote: > >the reason why a reverse proxy is "required" is, because some > > require additional "security" at the nodes. > > False. ehm. nope. thats is what

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/18/2014 04:42 PM, Simon Lange wrote: > "bad ppl" could pretend offering a public service using my machines they > dont own nor they administre nor they run. my machines would support > that passivly. think this is easy to understand. and also has some legal > implications. just imagine feds w

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Phil Pennock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-04-18 at 20:24 +0200, Simon Lange wrote: >the reason why a reverse proxy is "required" is, because some > require additional "security" at the nodes. False. The SKS software is single threaded and handles a single request at a time.

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maybe. thats why e prefer a techdoc which eliminates possible interpretations. ;) > > Feds aren't stupid. Your machines wouldn't support anything, and that STRONGLY depends where you living. i could tell you days filled with stories about really st

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Papik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/18/2014 11:42 PM, Simon Lange wrote: > https://twitter.com/krifisk/status/456717051340791808 "With a HTTP > Host header not belonging to the specific hostname? Note the -H > 'Host.' , 11371 should allow ALL traffic through" Sounds more lik

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
im afraid gpg wont show that while using it. ;) but for the webinterface its valid. ;) but i see you understand now my problem. ;) Simon Am 18.04.2014 22:38, schrieb Tobias Frei: > Hi, > > simply add "this page is served by keys.s-l-c.biz; I am in no way > affiliated with other hostnames which m

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.04.2014 22:10, schrieb Martin Papik: > Answering ALL host names just makes you willing to participate in any > pool by default, without extra maintenance. But again, AFAIK this > isn't a requirement. Am I misinformed? https://twitter.com/krifi

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Tobias Frei
Hi, sorry for my naivity, but I can't really think of a scenario where it would be a problem that your PGP keyserver (and only that one, keys.s-l-c.biz) is accessible under any other domain name. If your keyserver is accessible at insert-racist-domain-name-here.tld, so what? Does that make you a

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Papik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/18/2014 10:37 PM, Simon Lange wrote: > Ive been told that it is required to allow ALL incoming traffic to > the IP of my keyserver for port 11371 no matter what hostname is > requested. that would - of course - allow everyone on this planet > t

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.04.2014 21:18, schrieb Martin Papik: > On 04/18/2014 09:24 PM, Simon Lange wrote: > > yesterday i learned i have to give up control who is using his > > domain with my services. :/ > > Please explain, I'm not aware of such a requirement and if

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Papik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/18/2014 09:24 PM, Simon Lange wrote: > yesterday i learned i have to give up control who is using his > domain with my services. :/ Please explain, I'm not aware of such a requirement and if there is such I would like to know about it so I can

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, after directly communicating with Kristian via twitter i could enlight the whole situation. first. the whole process lacks of rudementary technical documentation. second. if the requirement is a reverse proxy and there is one, but your script fa

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Papik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I don't know who maintains the monitor, but this email chain prompted me to have a quick look at the differences between the responses between a reverse proxy and SKS and I found a few differences and how to detect a reverse proxy. I've come up with

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Arnold
Hi, On 04/17/2014 04:20 PM, Simon Lange (BIT) wrote: > well, but there IS a reverse proxy. ;) > tcp0 0 78.46.21.218:11371 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > 8804/lighttpd If I remember right, the monitor checks for a 'VIA' header. See https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Tobias Frei
Er, sorry, I see you already do that. Then maybe the automatic detection failed for whatever reason. And I just noticed that your status changed to "OK". Weird^^ Best regards, Tobias Frei Am 18.04.2014 13:30, schrieb Tobias Frei: > Hi, > > maybe you need to send a correct "Via:" header to allo

Re: [Sks-devel] status page

2014-04-18 Thread Tobias Frei
Hi, maybe you need to send a correct "Via:" header to allow automatic detection of the reverse proxy. If proxying is done completely transparent, there is probably no way to see that there is actually a proxy in front of sks. That's what I would assume, at least. Best regards, Tobias Frei Am 1