Re: [cks-devl] Sync thoughts (fwd)

[M. Drew Streib]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:13:21PM -0400, V Alex Brennen wrote:
> system A syncs key 12345678 to system B, system B syncs that key to
> system C, which might then send it to D.  But what if D is configured
> to sync to A?  Would we have a nasty loop here?

The answer is no, if A tagged the update with a "BeenThere"/Path style
header, so that D would realize that A had already seen it and not
resend. This is how pksd works.

-drew

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