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Re: [Sks-devel] sks responding extremely slowly if at all
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor |
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Re: [Sks-devel] sks responding extremely slowly if at all |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:29:18 -0800 |
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On 02/25/2013 03:21 PM, David Benfell wrote:
> If I'm reading this right, it's still running, but these timeouts are
> ridiculous:
>
> graton% gpg --recv-key "2512E3C7"
> gpg: requesting key 2512E3C7 from hkp server disunitedstates.com
> gpg: keyserver timed out
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
>
> What should I do?
are you running your keyserver behind an HTTP proxy? It's a known flaw
in SKS that a single slow client can prevent any other client from
accessing the service. using a reverse proxy directly in front of the
actual keyserver is a "best practice" approach to work around this problem:
https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering#!http-performance
hth,
--dkg
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