Hey, all! For starters, if any of you happen to be on Arch, I've packaged[0] a patched version of SKS that will let you provide dumps of your database from the same box you serve keys from with no downtime. (All it is is a version of SKS with some filesystem paths changed and a differently-named binary tied to those paths. You'd peer this to your other instance - obviously they'll need to run on different ports - so it stays in sync, and then you can stop that localized instance to dump keys etc.)
Secondly, I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but I have an SKS dump wrapper script in python: https://git.square-r00t.net/OpTools/tree/gpg/sksdump.py It has some nice features like being able to perform the dump on one box and rsync to another, service handling, compression support, and even pruning of dumps older than X days. Similarly, I also have a script that will let you query a keyserver's statistics on the commandline: https://git.square-r00t.net/OpTools/tree/gpg/keystats.py I find it a lot faster to use than browsing to a keyserver's keystats page. Plus it has some nice features like being able to use it for a module for another python program (since it's classed), JSON output or YAML output (the default is "pythonic" output), etc. [bts@cylon gpg]$ ./keystats.py sks.mirror.square-r00t.net {'keys': 5036849, 'server': {'contact': '0x748231EBCBD808A14F5E85D28C004C2F93481F6B', 'debug': 3, 'hkp_port': 11371, 'hostname': 'mirror.square-r00t.net', 'name': 'sks.mirror.square-r00t.net', 'recon_port': 11370, 'version': ('1', '1', '6')}} [bts@cylon gpg]$ ./keystats.py --yaml sks.mirror.square-r00t.net keys: 5036849 server: contact: 0x748231EBCBD808A14F5E85D28C004C2F93481F6B debug: 3 hkp_port: 11371 hostname: mirror.square-r00t.net name: sks.mirror.square-r00t.net recon_port: 11370 version: - 1 - 1 - 6 [bts@cylon gpg]$ ./keystats.py --json sks.mirror.square-r00t.net {"server": {"name": "sks.mirror.square-r00t.net", "hostname": "mirror.square-r00t.net", "version": ["1", "1", "6"], "contact": "0x748231EBCBD808A14F5E85D28C004C2F93481F6B", "hkp_port": 11371, "recon_port": 11370, "debug": 3}, "keys": 5036849} (There's a "verbose" mode that will print all peers and key histograms as well.) Hope you find use for these! [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sks-local/ -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info
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