Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-13 Thread David Benfell
ydump as a necessary backup for the Berkeley DB. I backup all my other databases; I expect to backup this one as well. -- David Benfell pgpe0RCz_Eaep.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread David Benfell
and again. I'm convinced it's just a really bad idea. -- David Benfell pgpFnsv3sczwI.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread David Benfell
y from java. It, too, seems to be problematic, for a number of reasons including memory leaks and CPU hogging. And I've seen these problems with just about every java application I've tried to leave running. -- David Benfell pgprKAgokZD6T.pgp Descripti

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-10 Thread David Benfell
Quoting Michael Sinatra : On 04/10/15 15:44, David Benfell wrote: I'm giving up. When there is an sks that uses a reliable database system, I'll be happy to rejoin. But Berkeley DB is not sane in my environment, has never proven scalable in any environment I've had in the pa

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-10 Thread David Benfell
and it crashed again. I'm giving up. When there is an sks that uses a reliable database system, I'll be happy to rejoin. But Berkeley DB is not sane in my environment, has never proven scalable in any environment I've had in the past, and I'm not messing with it any mor

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com restored from backup

2015-03-25 Thread David Benfell
somebody to come up with a version that runs on mysql. Its databases *can* be kept healthy. It scales. It isn't consistently broken as I've seen with everything that runs Berkeley DB on any scale. -- David Benfell pgpqe0pxXYtOW.pgp Desc

Re: [Sks-devel] seeking peers for keys.techwolf12.nl

2015-03-19 Thread David Benfell
72F2546D8 > > I have added the above to my membership file. Please add: sks.disunitedstates.com 11370 # David Benfell 0x1236602B Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp89I4ionco

[Sks-devel] where are the good init files for FreeBSD?

2015-02-20 Thread David Benfell
and running 'sks db' and 'sks recon' by hand. The init scripts I have instantly fail with no log messages whatsoever. I'm clueless. Also, it sounded like what Phil is doing has an additional dependency. What is it? -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/

[Sks-devel] PARTLY BACK UP Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime for upgrade

2015-02-20 Thread David Benfell
bly seeing reconciliation within a couple hours. IPv6 a bit later--my proxy idea just didn't work. at. all, once DNS propagated. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:11:14PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm moving nearly all of my web services, including sks, to a new, > more

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com downtime for upgrade

2015-02-19 Thread David Benfell
down to be restarted with new configurations. The switch should happen later tonight (Thursday night/early Friday, UTC-8). I'll advise when I'm theoretically back up. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp86m7Ff8_M1.pgp D

Re: [Sks-devel] recon stops: "2015-02-11 07:09:48 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure("remove_from_node: attempt to delete non-existant element from prefix tree")"

2015-02-13 Thread David Benfell
On FreeBSD, we seem not to have checkpath, at least in the places where I looked. I have tweaked init scripts crafted by--I think--Phil Pennock a while ago; the FreeBSD port doesn't include them, and Phil's need to be updated and probably worked into something a lot more robust. --

Re: [Sks-devel] recon stops: "2015-02-11 07:09:48 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure("remove_from_node: attempt to delete non-existant element from prefix tree")"

2015-02-13 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > >> > > This would have been good. How do I just rebuild the PTree? > > Just delete the PTree dir and run sks pbuild > Great! I've added this to my notes. Thanks! -- David Benfell See https:

Re: [Sks-devel] recon stops: "2015-02-11 07:09:48 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure("remove_from_node: attempt to delete non-existant element from prefix tree")"

2015-02-11 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:45:12PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 02/11/2015 04:32 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > the easiest is likely just rebuilding the PTree, that should be quick > enough (you don't need to touch KDB for that) > This would have been good. How d

[Sks-devel] Back up now, Re: sks.disunitedstates.com rebuilding

2015-02-11 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, sks.disunitedstates.com is now back on line and seems to be trying to catch up. As noted below, the database is restored from a dump taken on Sunday, so it has a few days to catch up on. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:53:02AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm taki

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com rebuilding

2015-02-11 Thread David Benfell
what seems to me to be excessive fragility. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpdOfh1LgcMC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.

[Sks-devel] recon stops: "2015-02-11 07:09:48 Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure("remove_from_node: attempt to delete non-existant element from prefix tree")"

2015-02-11 Thread David Benfell
db_recover-5.3 -ev done And tried restarting everything. No joy. Is there any remedy short of rebuilding the whole database? -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpogDgVpDQ2u.pgp Description: PGP signature _

[Sks-devel] dumps hanging

2015-02-10 Thread David Benfell
do I fix it? Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp5SvEjYe5Ay.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com was down

2015-02-09 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, For unknown reasons--perhaps something will pop up in the logs now that I've aborted it--my daily dump hung. It starts at 4:15 am; when I looked earlier I *thought* it was taking too long. It should be back up shortly -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 i

Re: [Sks-devel] UPDATE: Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime now THURSDAY

2015-02-05 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 10:25:41AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > > They are behind schedule. Now it's set for a 9-11 am arrival tomorrow > (Thursday). It's expected to take 6-7 hours. The downtime will of > course be longer than that because I have to move the system out &

Re: [Sks-devel] UPDATE: Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime now THURSDAY

2015-02-04 Thread David Benfell
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:58:43PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:52:59PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > > > > We're getting new carpeting put in. It's lame, but yes, my server will > > be going down on Wednesday, probably before 12 pm Pacif

[Sks-devel] UPDATE: Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime Wednesday

2015-02-03 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:52:59PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > > We're getting new carpeting put in. It's lame, but yes, my server will > be going down on Wednesday, probably before 12 pm Pacific time, and > coming back up sometime that afternoon or evening, depending on 1

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com downtime Wednesday

2015-02-02 Thread David Benfell
ow long it takes me to reassemble everything. Groan. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpBJvuI_mD_u.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://l

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com hkp and hkps down

2015-01-28 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:03:30PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having severe web server problems. Reconciliation is still > happening, from what I can see, but hkp and hkps, which require the > web server, cannot. It's all back up now, in part with a

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com hkp and hkps down

2015-01-28 Thread David Benfell
dissertation research depends on it. I'm going to be real unhappy if I have to switch to nginx (which I've failed miserably at getting working with php before). -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp_svESN51g5.pgp Description

[Sks-devel] Back up now, was Re: oops. sks.disunitedstates.com has been down

2014-12-22 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 05:46:21PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > For some reason, the database process failed to shut down for my daily > dump. I've finally noticed the problem, reissued the shut down, and > the dump is now occurring. It should be back up soon.

[Sks-devel] oops. sks.disunitedstates.com has been down

2014-12-22 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, For some reason, the database process failed to shut down for my daily dump. I've finally noticed the problem, reissued the shut down, and the dump is now occurring. It should be back up soon. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the

Re: [Sks-devel] changed to Thursday -- Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime tomorrow (Wednesday)

2014-10-31 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:58:16PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:23:32PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > > > > I have an all-day window from the ISP, so I really don't know when > > this is happening with any precision at all. I also don't

[Sks-devel] changed to Thursday -- Re: sks.disunitedstates.com downtime tomorrow (Wednesday)

2014-10-29 Thread David Benfell
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:23:32PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > > I have an all-day window from the ISP, so I really don't know when > this is happening with any precision at all. I also don't really know > how *long* this will take. After making us stay here for twelve ho

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com downtime tomorrow (Wednesday)

2014-10-28 Thread David Benfell
also don't really know how *long* this will take. So just figure on tomorrow being ugly on my side. I'll send a note when everything is situated. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp6Y_iLBBFa8.pgp D

[Sks-devel] RESOLVED: Re: Sks.disunitedstates.com down

2014-10-27 Thread David Benfell
ears this time that the command to stop the database process hung. Reissuing the command worked and it is now generating a dump. As soon as it finishes, it should come back up. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpTOgeUHYEzD.pgp De

[Sks-devel] Sks.disunitedstates.com down

2014-10-27 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all. I'm on the road right now without ptoper Internet access, but apparently sks.disunitedstates.com has gone down. I do have a script to try to fix the most common problems automatically that runs every hour. Should this fail, I'll look into

Re: [Sks-devel] Broken keyservers (413 Request Entity Too Large)

2014-09-04 Thread David Benfell
see this use as an abuse, but as legitimate. We should be able to accommodate it, even if it is an outlier. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp_UVNMf28P9.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Sks-devel] Broken keyservers (413 Request Entity Too Large)

2014-09-04 Thread David Benfell
is in APG (the Android variant). I would suggest setting an upper bound of 16384. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpoZIwOmNhzF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mail

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com returns to IPv6

2014-08-27 Thread David Benfell
etely broken.) But it is there. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgphBFvC43w9j.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com is down, possibly for the count

2014-08-15 Thread David Benfell
y I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp1Aa_KBj6cY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://list

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com is down, possibly for the count

2014-08-13 Thread David Benfell
not sks. I don't know why. But I can't even get through a dump properly now. So I'm putting this aside. I'll give it another try after I have more reliable memory. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpkOhv28

Re: [Sks-devel] more sks.disunitedstates.com trouble

2014-08-12 Thread David Benfell
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 06:21:21PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > > I have downloaded yet another dump and am trying again. > sks.disunitedstates.com will be going back down shortly. > This is now complete and I have restarted sks.disunitedstates.com. The dump was a couple days old,

[Sks-devel] more sks.disunitedstates.com trouble

2014-08-12 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, I attempted a dump this morning and got way too many files. I think my database is still screwed up and the sks burp script isn't repairing all the damage. I have downloaded yet another dump and am trying again. sks.disunitedstates.com will be going back down shortly. -- David Be

[Sks-devel] also sks.disunitedstates.com, was Re: keyserver.kjsl.org is back online

2014-08-10 Thread David Benfell
a rough patch for sks.disunitedstates.com. The tale of woe involves a defective memory card, way too many system crashes, and resulting filesystem corruption, leading to further system crashes. I think (hope) I've got all this sorted out now. 10:10PM up 12:23, 4 users, load averages: 0.15

Re: [Sks-devel] Recommended HKPS protocols & ciphersuites?

2014-08-03 Thread David Benfell
with "450 4.3.2 Service currently unavailable". Hopefully we're talking now. I added you to my membership list and sent a response. This conversion has been a bit messier than ones I've gone through in the past. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don'

Re: [Sks-devel] Recommended HKPS protocols & ciphersuites?

2014-08-03 Thread David Benfell
-response-1.0 BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown However, I have been mean about some older clients. I don't care about Yandex, for example, and don't know why they don't update their SSL capabilities. -- David Benfell See https://parts

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com

2014-08-02 Thread David Benfell
d not anticipate (surely someone out there is thinking they could have told me as much). So I kinda have my hands full at the moment. Thanks again! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp_UX8wj707n.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com

2014-08-02 Thread David Benfell
n fault nearly instantly. If I'm going to get another one, it will at least have taken longer. The build is now in progress per the above. Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachmen

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com

2014-08-02 Thread David Benfell
on the system (there were other issues as well that made an upgrade from 10.0-RELEASE advisable) and hoping I can make this go away. If anyone else has encountered this, what did you do to fix it? Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understan

Re: [Sks-devel] Keydump

2014-07-14 Thread David Benfell
com/dump/ (I do this weekly; what's there now is now nearly a week old). Obviously, we ask that you not be abusive when downloading these dumps. The downloads are non-trivial, but we make them available freely. Good luck with your research. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering Request

2014-07-11 Thread David Benfell
Hello Klaus-Uwe, I have added the below: keys.klaus-uwe.me 11370 # Klaus-Uwe Mitterer 0x8CEC4BD8 Please add: sks.disunitedstates.com 11370 # David Benfell 0x1236602B Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering Request

2014-07-10 Thread David Benfell
details. keys.klaus-uwe.me 11370 # Klaus-Uwe Mitterer Your key count is way low, less than half what it should be: 150. By contrast, at this writing, sks.disunitedstates.com reports 3670614. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment.

[Sks-devel] dumps taking progressively *much* longer

2014-07-09 Thread David Benfell
w months that I've been doing this. Is there some housekeeping that can be done on the database to keep this reasonable? (I've tried the sks-burp script.) Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. pgpsCuHugy2uL.

Re: [Sks-devel] sks-peer.spodhuis.org outage - apology

2014-06-16 Thread David Benfell
finds one). It hasn't had to run the recovery for a while now, but there were a couple instances close together that motivated me to set up the job. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. pgpSsVwnFIMEz.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: [Sks-devel] Seeking peers for pgp.archreactor.org

2014-06-12 Thread David Benfell
x27;s probably a good idea to add the following line to your sksconf file and restart: initial_stat: Otherwise, your statistics should be calculated at whatever time is set in your sksconf file and people will be more likely to respond after that. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/n

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com back up

2014-04-13 Thread David Benfell
share this. The time I've selected is mostly arbitrary; if another time would be better, let me know. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgpvupI6Y_pul.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering etiquette reminder

2014-04-07 Thread David Benfell
rs with whom peering didn't seem to be working. I think a larger conversation might be in order here. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. pgp45QsZKwBpI.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Sks-devel] offtopic: encrypt.to

2013-12-12 Thread David Benfell
me) audit code (I think they will do so for their own reasons), and 3) will they share their results (I thought this was the idea of open source)? - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS server not sending data (?)

2013-11-12 Thread David Benfell
like this already, try: gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key ${new-key-id} and: gpg --keyserver sks.disunitedstates.com --recv-key ${new-key-id} From what I can see, this propagation usually happens pretty fast. -- David Benfell PGP/GnuPG: 0x1236602B ECC: 0xEC7E52FF This email shoul

Re: [Sks-devel] Setting up hkps

2013-11-12 Thread David Benfell
11371 to your keyserver which should only answer on localhost). -- David Benfell If an attachment to this email baffles you, please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Sks-devel maili

Re: [Sks-devel] About deleting keys

2013-11-04 Thread David Benfell
Johan van Selst wrote: > >It doesn't matter if the information is verified. Users are asked for >their name and email address, which is considered personal data >(according to EU definitions) and keyservers are processing and storing >this data. Thereby, keyserver operators are subjected to the da

Re: [Sks-devel] About deleting keys

2013-10-29 Thread David Benfell
ore is undesirable... Just to make this hairier, would it not be the case that any solution to this problem would create an even more severe problem for reconciliation between older and newer versions of SKS than we have now with <=1.1.1 and >1.1.1? - -- David Benfell see https://part

Re: [Sks-devel] Seeking for gossiping peers for http://sks01.keyhub.io:11371

2013-10-28 Thread David Benfell
pks/lookup?op=stats , you have zero keys. You need to get a key dump and load it first. I believe the instructions are here: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BE

[Sks-devel] Please revise membership records for disunitedstates.com

2013-10-12 Thread David Benfell
dstates.com in their membership files and then I should phase out using the plain domain. Thanks! - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-12 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2013 12:02 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: Stupidly, I forgot to configure that. It should be fixed now. Thanks! - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-12 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2013 12:20 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > On 11.10.2013 15:02, Phil Pennock wrote: >> On 2013-10-10 at 18:58 -0700, David Benfell wrote: >>> I'm accepting hkp requests either at disunitedstates.com or at >>> sks

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-10 Thread David Benfell
sks.disunitedstates.com is now available on ports 80, 443, and 11371. Since they're all proxies, the only difference here is that port 443 is secured with SSL. (Yes, I made it through straightening out the certificates.) - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-10 Thread David Benfell
use separate IP addresses because I use SSL (which I'm currently in the process of straightening out for the new subdomain) and I've had bad luck with SNI in the past. - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN P

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-10 Thread David Benfell
You're not going to get any argument from me. I'm much more of a social theorist than a technician: dual-stack will soon distinguish those who came earlier from those who came later. It might not be as serious an issue as Proudhon lays into, in _What is Property?_ but I see red flags non

Re: [Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-10 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2013 05:57 AM, Todd Lyons wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:38:55AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > >> For those who worry about such things, disunitedstates.com has >> added IPv6 capability and should now be answering at

[Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com now available on IPv6

2013-10-10 Thread David Benfell
cache arrangements, I can't check to be 100% sure. Thanks! - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://w

Re: [Sks-devel] Lost membership file, need peers, Re: disunitedstates.com down

2013-09-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/22/2013 03:15 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > It turns out that my membership file did not get backed up. So it > seems I'm starting from scratch. If you would like to peer with > this server, hosted by Contabo in Munich, plea

[Sks-devel] Lost membership file, need peers, Re: disunitedstates.com down

2013-09-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/22/2013 01:18 AM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > DisUnitedStates.com went down due to a very badly botched Arch > Linux upgrade. > > I'm currently downloading a fresh keydump from pgp.jjim.de > (thanks, wh

Re: [Sks-devel] And it can't get up! Re: disunitedstates.com down

2013-09-22 Thread David Benfell
ave replied *on* the list, because > > Did you run the build as user root? Perhaps the key and PTree DB's > are owned by user root and are not writeable by the user running > the SKS server (user sks-debian on Debian). Yes. d'oh. This was it. Thanks! - -- David Benfell s

[Sks-devel] And it can't get up! Re: disunitedstates.com down

2013-09-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/22/2013 01:18 AM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > DisUnitedStates.com went down due to a very badly botched Arch > Linux upgrade. So I've gone through a build that I think happened much too quickly (I did select 2 for the

[Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com down

2013-09-22 Thread David Benfell
to pick up and put back together. Sorry for any inconvenience. There will be some catching up to do when I get this back running. - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

2013-09-19 Thread David Benfell
VICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sks 217 root3r CHR1,8 0t0 1039 /dev/random sks 219 root3r CHR1,8 0t0 1039 /dev/random I would think that *this* would be what is expected. - -- David Benfell see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the att

[Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com downtime

2013-08-08 Thread David Benfell
is will be back up shortly. And for those keeping score, yes, I do have a new PGP key. - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.

Re: [Sks-devel] Fake keys and removal thereof

2013-07-03 Thread David Benfell
rent context. As I understand it, there is no way to remove a key--fraudulent or otherwise. - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

[Sks-devel] Hopefully okay now, was Re: DisUnitedStates.com should be back up

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2013 01:38 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > I just noticed the key count. I'm not succeeding either at moving > the database from the old server to the new server or at building > from a dump. > It looks like the problem

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com should be back up

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2013 01:22 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > It's running anyway. ;-) > Never mind. I just noticed the key count. I'm not succeeding either at moving the database from the old server to the new server or at buil

[Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com should be back up

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
located in Munich: statistics are at http://disunitedstates.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=stats My membership file entry would look something like: disunitedstates.com 11370 #David Benfell 0xEE3DBE12 (sorry for the line break) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

Re: [Sks-devel] Disunitedstates.com: DB_AUTO_COMMIT may not be specified in non-transactional environment on build

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2013 12:26 AM, John Clizbe wrote: > >> Now trying to build the database, choosing '2' for the faster >> sks, I get 'DB_AUTO_COMMIT may not be specified in >> non-transactional environment'. I'm not seeing anything useful >> about this error o

Re: [Sks-devel] Disunitedstates.com: DB_AUTO_COMMIT may not be specified in non-transactional environment on build

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2013 12:26 AM, John Clizbe wrote: < lots of helpful stuff that thunderbird apparently thinks is unimportant > Apologies for sending this from a non-subscribed address. I'm having problems with TLS on postfix right now. (Why can't just copyin

[Sks-devel] Disunitedstates.com: DB_AUTO_COMMIT may not be specified in non-transactional environment on build

2013-04-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Ick. This is proving more difficult than I expected. Trying to dump the database on the old server yielded some kind of database error, with the suggestion to run recovery. I couldn't find how to do a recovery, so I just copied the latest dum

[Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com moving -- downtime

2013-04-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, DisUnitedStates.com is moving from a Linode VPS in Atlanta to a Contabo dedicated server in Munich. The good news is that this *should* be a much more capable system and improve service. The bad news is that Contabo does not yet offer IPv6, s

Re: [Sks-devel] sks responding extremely slowly if at all

2013-02-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/2013 3:29 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > are you running your keyserver behind an HTTP proxy? It's a known > flaw in SKS that a single slow client can prevent any other client > from accessing the service. using a reverse proxy directly

[Sks-devel] sks responding extremely slowly if at all

2013-02-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, My sks server does not seem to be healthy. It looks to me like the problem may be the database. Here's a snippet from db.log: 2013-02-25 14:54:52 Adding hash 3CE97D7E43467554B625403596990171 2013-02-25 14:54:52 Del'ng hash 63E14B0382B749F673

Re: [Sks-devel] The Arch User Repository version of SKS has supposedly been updated

2012-10-13 Thread David Benfell
base files (such is my comfort level with Berkeley DB). But building from source, I encountered no problems with the upgrade. I still had my Makefile.local from when I built 1.1.3 and just copied it in. It was utterly painless. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

[Sks-devel] The Arch User Repository version of SKS has supposedly been updated

2012-10-12 Thread David Benfell
as out of date (which is a bit embarrassing since somebody just got this packaged). - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQeJvEAAoJEP0r2H01qrjg6FcP

Re: [Sks-devel] sks-keyservers.net: ECC safe subpool

2012-10-07 Thread David Benfell
on job now. -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org <>___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com back up

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 08:08 PM, David Benfell wrote: > On 07/25/2012 02:19 PM, David Benfell wrote: >> Hi all, > >> I will reply to this posting with an additional note just before >> I begin the test. > > The experiment

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com back up

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 08:08 PM, David Benfell wrote: > On 07/25/2012 02:19 PM, David Benfell wrote: >> Hi all, > >> I will reply to this posting with an additional note just before >> I begin the test. > > The experiment

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com downtime

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 02:19 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I will reply to this posting with an additional note just before I > begin the test. > The experiment is, so far, a failure. Even my initial network script is failing to

[Sks-devel] systemd service file for sks?

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-unknown.org sks[852]: Fatal error: exception Keydb.Unsafe.No_db Jul 25 16:36:46 atlanta.parts-unknown.org sks[854]: Fatal error: exception Keydb.Unsafe.No_db How are people actually doing this? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com downtime

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 02:19 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > I will reply to this posting with an additional note just before I > begin the test. > Took my nap. Going for it now Oy. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN P

[Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com downtime

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
might provoke the test sooner than I intend. I've been working on this since yesterday and had to get up early to deal with a sick (actually injured, as it turns out) cat. I will reply to this posting with an additional note just before I begin the test. - -- David Benfell benf...@pa

[Sks-devel] disunitedstates.com back up

2012-07-15 Thread David Benfell
start that became necessary when the Linode ceased being responsive. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQAxLmAAoJELT202JKF+x

Re: [Sks-devel] How to purge excess log files?

2012-07-13 Thread David Benfell
ee taking precedence over a generically named > DB_CONFIG. Okay, so I've made the copies and restarted sks. *Hopefully* my disk will only fill up due to stuff *I'm* doing. :-/ Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU

Re: [Sks-devel] How to purge excess log files?

2012-07-12 Thread David Benfell
ference over DB_CONFIG for > each respectively). So this will be part of the next release. > Should hopefully make this process a bit smoother :) > If I'm reading this right, DB_CONFIG should be in *both* places? Is that right? - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN

Re: [Sks-devel] How to purge excess log files?

2012-07-11 Thread David Benfell
nually in a script anyway.) Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJP/l8OAAoJELT202JKF+xpqkAP/j8jhHmtMX0TFOenhS9jzP0V lQ6syNrzhelrBwXmG/isq

[Sks-devel] How to purge excess log files?

2012-07-11 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I know I've seen this, but Google isn't helping me to find it again. How does one purge excess log files? And are there any precautions one should take when doing so? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com back up. Hopefully.

2012-06-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/25/12 03:32, John Clizbe wrote: > David Benfell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This was much more of an adventure than I was expecting. I >> *think* disunitedstates.com is back up. >> >> I built from source,

[Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com back up. Hopefully.

2012-06-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, This was much more of an adventure than I was expecting. I *think* disunitedstates.com is back up. I built from source, so I don't have a web page however. Who has a nice one I can steal/borrow/rob/beg? Thanks! - -- David Benfell

Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com down; Re: DB_ENV->set_lk_detect: unknown deadlock detection mode specified

2012-06-25 Thread David Benfell
tal error, run database recovery Oy vey. It's really unhappy. The dump download is ongoing. I'm blowing away DB and PTree. I'm thinking I might as well use the more recent version of db that exists on my system. How do I specify the version in the build? - -- David Benfell benf...@p

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