> On Mar 23, 2021, at 02:38, Andrew Gallagher <andr...@andrewg.com> wrote: > > Hi, Todd. > > On 23/03/2021 03:37, Todd Fleisher wrote: >>> On Mar 22, 2021, at 13:28, Andrew Gallagher <andr...@andrewg.com >>> <mailto:andr...@andrewg.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I happened to check the pool just now, and there are only three nodes in it: >>> >>> 1pgpkeys.uk <http://pgpkeys.uk>[@] >>> 2sks.pod01.fleetstreetops.com <http://sks.pod01.fleetstreetops.com>[@] >>> 3sks.pod02.fleetstreetops.com <http://sks.pod02.fleetstreetops.com>[@] > > BTW it has just happened again: > > 1 pgpkeys.eu[@] > 2 pgpkeys.uk[@] > 3 sks.pod02.fleetstreetops.com[@] > >>> Looking at the cached metadata it appears that when the spider ran, >>> pod02.fleetstreetops nodes was unavailable, as was pgpkeys.co.uk >>> <http://pgpkeys.co.uk> (the domain registration has expired). >> I can’t speak for pgpkeys.co.uk <http://pgpkeys.co.uk>, but I have not seen >> any issues with sks.pod02.fleetstreetops.com >> <http://sks.pod02.fleetstreetops.com> (nor hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net >> <http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net>, which it powers) today. > > Apologies, I didn't mean to cast doubt on the reliability of your node, but > rather on that of the spider. It does not maintain much of a historical > record, and so depends on a single measurement per node each hour for its > operation. This makes it very vulnerable to transient issues, such as > connection timeouts. One dropped connection, and 90% of the pool disappears > for an hour, even if all the nodes stay up.
No worries. I was neither offended nor trying to dispute that at times the pools run thin (if not fully bottom out). I was just trying to keep the things in perspective. My nodes also suffer from issues periodically and as a result I have seen issues where they are non-responsive at times. This usually isn’t visible to the public on account of the load balanced setup. > There are a few interlocking design issues at work here IMO, none of which > are the responsibility of individual operators. Indeed. -T > -- > Andrew Gallagher >
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