Re: High rate of updated keys

[Andreas Puls]

Hi Andrew,

Am 06.05.2021 um 15:07 schrieb Andrew Gallagher:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm noticing recently a large number of updated keys in pgpkeys.eu
> (hockeypuck), on the order of several thousand per hour. The total
> number of keys is not increasing unusually, just the modifications. I
> notice that both andreas-puls servers and utwente.nl seem to be
> experiencing similar activity (an order of magnitude less, at tens to a
> few hundred per hour), while other pool members seem unaffected (single
> digits of updates per hour). Can I ask hockeypuck operators what filter
> values they are using? pgpkeys.eu is currently set to:
>
> maxPacketLength=65536
> maxKeyLength=1048576
Im running on both of my servers the deafult value.
IIRC this should be:
#maxPacketLength=8192
#maxKeyLength=1048576

> This is more generous than the defaults, which makes me wonder if the
> root problem is that it is allowing abusive keys that others are
> filtering out.
>
> On a possibly related note, sks.pgpkeys.eu (sks) is timing out
> repeatedly during incoming bulk requests from its recon peers. It seems
> to manifest as "End_of_file" errors in the SKS logs as the reverse proxy
> gives up. Has anyone else seen similar issues?
>
> Thanks,
> A
Br
  Andreas