Re: [Sks-devel] CNAMEs for sks pool

[Fabian Santiago]

thanks.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Phil Pennock
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2017-02-19 at 16:59 -0500, Fabian Santiago wrote:
>> may i ask, what are all of the CNAMEs for the pool? Thanks.
>
> Nobody knows for sure.  There can be arbitrary names.
>
> This is covered in:
>   https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering
>
>   Beware that for port 11371 traffic, you must be able to handle
>   requests with any Host: header, for the various pools and CNAMEs which
>   exist, and you must accept requests with no User-Agent: header set, as
>   at least one major OpenPGP HKP client refuses to set a User-Agent
>   field when talking to keyservers.
>
> You don't need to accept unknown names on ports 80/443.
>
> The most _common_ CNAMEs are at:
>   https://www.sks-keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php
> and also "keys.gnupg.net", which points to one of those.
>
> Other people can set up their own CNAMEs; Kristian's service is widely
> used, including by gnupg.net, but not in any way especially privileged.
>
> -Phil