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Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers
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Gabor Kiss |
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Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:38:48 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) |
> Are there any recommendations for the number of peers each keyserver
> should have in the membership file?
Not yet. :-)
In theory an optimal value could be computed but there are
too many parameters (e.g. network delay and bandwidth,
probability of hardware errors, average length of outages,
cpu power, number of new keys "produced" by each node etc.)
Moreover some of them are subjective preferences
(e.g. the estimated cost of your CPU time and networks BW,
the required availability etc.)
So all of us have some idea about how many peers are the best.
Some guys want to be connected to everybody else.
I think 5-10 peer is more than enough.
(I guess a wild debate will start now... :-)
Cheers
Gabor
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- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, Robert J. Hansen, 2011/04/21
- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, Ari Trachtenberg, 2011/04/21
- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, Andy Ruddock, 2011/04/23
- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, Jeff Johnson, 2011/04/23
- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, Andy Ruddock, 2011/04/23
- Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers, David Benfell, 2011/04/24
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