Re: [Sks-devel] Installing a new SKS server

[Chris Kuethe]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Ron Peterson wrote:

> 2007-08-13_00:20:59-0400 Jack Cummings <address@hidden>:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:05:17PM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> > 
> > > I assume that was you grabbing my latest keydump - let me know when you've
> > > got it loaded and the name of your server, and I'll add you to my peers 
> > > list.
> >  
> > Monthly keydumps sound like a good use for torrents. 
> 
> I like that idea.  I don't mind setting one up, but I've got to get
> through the end of summer crunch first.

It occurs to me that this may not work as well as one might like.
Everybody's keydump is going to be slightly different based on
what order keys were loaded, last update time, where a given update
was injected into the net ... to me that suggest that we'll have
40 servops all downloading a torrent they don't really need.

So long as the keydump is within a few thousand keys of the full
keyring, I think that's probably sufficient to bootstrap a server.
Also, how often do keydumps actually get used?

At least for users at other academic institutions, it makes sense
to have a dump available via FTP - this may suffer less a the hands
of the traffic shapers that are getting so common these days.

If others would see value in this, I'm willing to schedule a weekly
or monthly dump and leave it open for all interested parties...

CK

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