Re: [Sks-devel] Seeking peers for keyserver.opensuse.org

[Lars Vogdt]

Am Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:04:31 +0100
schrieb Chris Boot <address@hidden>:
> > So what is the best practice here? I found some sks servers running
> > the same web-pages on 11371 and some which do not provide any
> > webpage.  
> 
> 
> That's fair enough - I don't use nginx for my keyserver so I can't
> really comment on those instructions, but it feels to me like a
> keyserver should present the same interface on port 11371 as it does
> on port 80. That's not to say that it's broken, and it certainly
> looks like it will work for the more general use case of GPG fetching
> keys, it just feels less user friendly.

I with you regarding the user friendliness. So let me see if I should
simply get rid of nginx or find another solution to provide the WebUI
also on Port 11371. :-)



> Yes, you only need the outgoing part, and certainly no harm asking
> Jonathan about it first.

ok.


> The problem, as I understand it, is that SKS servers will only
> mailsync changes pushed directly to them and not changes gossiped
> from other SKS peers. That means that servers that rely on mailsync
> alone will be missing out on a large proportion of changes from the
> keyserver network.

That's bad. But I guess nothing we can fix here other than providing
the Email interface to the PKS servers - which I did now.

 
> With all that said, I've added you to my membership file. Please add
> me in return:
> 
> sks.bootc.eu 11370 # Chris Boot <address@hidden> 0xF5C83C05D9CEEEEE

Thank you - and again thanks for your explanations and suggestions!

=> added your server to the membership file.

With kind regards,
Lars

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