Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.noreply.org moved

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Hi Yaron,

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 05:24, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>
> > Yaron, it would be really nice if SKS honored DNS' TTL value.
>
> It would be nice.  Patches, anyone?
>
> (Another idea would be to do DNS lookups when you need them, without
> doing any internal caching.  Any thoughts on whether this would be
> better or worse than the current implementation?)

An nslookup each time you have to connect is a bit overkilling in my
opinion, on the other side i couldn't find any specific ocaml library to
interact with the resolver to be able to gather information about the TTL
(but please check again!).

So I think a compromise should be done and the place i would attack is
reload_if_changed() in memebership.ml changing it in something like
reload_if_changed_or_if_older_than_XX_minutes(). If i did get lost in the
code all the ip addresses will be lookedup again. Making XX a
configuration option would be even better but i think a 15 minutes TTL
should satisfy almost everyone in this world.

Fabio

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