Re: [Sks-devel] Well connected?

[Andrew Gallagher]

> On 1 Sep 2015, at 15:24, Kristian Fiskerstrand <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 09/01/2015 04:19 PM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
>> Has anyone performed a survey of sks servers to see how well 
>> connected we are? How fragile is the network under failure 
>> conditions? Do we rely too much on a small number of links?
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> If you have a good eye-sight (or a zoom button), you see one such
> graphical display e.g. on [0] that is generated
> based on .dot files I produce out of the network mesh recorded.
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> Although I look at them manually from time to time, no proper
> statistical analysis or review has been performed on this information.
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> References:
> [0] https://sks-keyservers.net/files/2014-09_NUUG.pdf
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That's great, thanks. 

One thing that does concern me about the current arrangements is how manual 
(and ad-hoc) the peering system is. I can foresee scalability problems...

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