Re: Livelihood statistics of the SKS keyserver network

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 13/05/2021 18:16, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Andrew Gallagher dijo [Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:34:20PM +0100]:
> > 1. produce a connectivity graph with only working nodes
>
> Added, as "Success" graph.

It purty. :-)

> > 2. ignore localhost and private IPs, they will never work :-)
>
> Of course. But still, it documents a given server works in a clustered
> way. Of course they will fail, but who cares? ;-

It messes up your metrics though, because they're not *really* broken. :-)

> > 3. should it not default to port 11371 and fall back to 80?
> > 4. don't plot *.pool.sks-keyservers.net in the graph
>
> Right... I could add this bit later on, but then again, it does not
> clutter the graph much. AFAICT, It is only a single, starting node,
> and no nodes ever point back to it, right?
>
> Erm, no, _not_ matching reality. There are several servers as a
> destination...

There are also several other nodes that are aliases or redirects, and so 
appear under more than one name - for example pgp.pm redirects to 
sks.pod01.fleetstreetops.com and keyserver.computer42.org is a CNAME for 
keyserver1.computer42.org. Keeping track of all this will get quite 
complex. ;-)

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Andrew Gallagher

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