Re: [Sks-devel] Dump

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:25:41PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote:
> Yes, Chris. It would, especially after losing Peter's site. It would also be
> great if we could expand the number of sites offering keydumps so Marco's site
> doesn't have to bear all of the traffic.

Absolutely agree, and by chance I was already in the middle of preparing
regular dumps from my server anyway.

I had two motivations:
 - sharing some of the load, especially since we've already seen that this
   service can vanish very quickly otherwise
 - I struggled to find a good and recent dump when I first set up my box.
   I found plenty of advice on how to import the dump, and how to set up
   gossip sync, but no actual locations for *doing* this.


> The biggest hurdle to setting up a keyserver is the initial populating of the
> nearly 2.9M keys. It's perfectly reasonable to list sources for where to get 
> the
> initial data dump at the same place one gets the software. Granted, not that
> many actually get SKS from the GoogleCode site -- most are installing a .deb 
> or
> .rpm via a package manager, but a central source for tech help needs to exist
> and there's not really a better choice than the project's own pages.

I'm happy to take on preparing a patch for the Debian package with
instructions on where to find this list, but it will be too late for the
next release now.

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Jonathan Wiltshire

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