Re: [Sks-devel] [GnuPG-users] sks-keyservers.net: Changes to pools / SRV Weights

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 2012-05-13 15:29, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
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> On May 13, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
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> 
> Putting a band-aid on an issue isn't the best engineering, nor is
> reverse proxy necessarily the "best" engineering solution even if
> adding a reverse proxy is relatively simple, it isn't necessarily
> the only solution, just what "works".

Indeed, but complexity goes both ways. Rewriting the SKS code-base to
multi-thread will most certainly (i) take time (ii) result in some
breakage while figuring out all the bugs.

A reverse proxy in front is a simple quick-fix that, if not solve the
full problem, reduce the problem of un-responsive servers to the
users. (Hence they are given extra weight)

> 
>> * (as an aside, I've added apache2 to the test now, in addition
>> to nginx)
>> 
> 
> My apache2 reverse proxy thanks you for the SRV weight boost ;-)
> 

Incidentally, which server is that? Would be nice to see in the pool
for testing. But in the pool atm I only see these HTTP Server responses
    [1] => nginx
    [2] => sks_www/1.1.4
    [3] => sks_www/1.0.10
    [4] => sks_www/1.1.1
    [5] => nginx/1.2.0
    [6] => nginx/0.6.35
    [7] => sks_www/1.1.2
    [8] => sks_www/1.1.3
    [9] => nginx/1.0.15
    [10] => nginx/0.7.67
    [11] => sks_www/1.0.9
    [12] => nginx/1.1.19
    [13] => nginx/1.0.12
    [14] => nginx/1.0.14
    [15] => apache2 rev proxy (like nginx :P)
    [16] => sks_www/1.1.0


> More seriously: adding a bias through an attribute like Uses
> reverse proxy? might be useful considering the recent
> implementation/adoption. As time moves on, there are surely other
> attributes of interest. Consider Has IPv6? after a few more IPv6
> days for example.
> 

I'll take that into consideration :)

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