On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:57:56AM -0400, Richard Houser wrote: > I think this behavior is fine. A lot of people were coming into > problems by loading keys into servers that weren't properly handling the > round-robin syncronization they were designed for. This has come up a > LOT for the Engimail addon for Mozilla/Netscape in their mailing list. > In version 1.0.6, the default was to actually disable a default > keyserver lookup. > > As long as mandrakesecure.net is permanently kept in the loop, I can't > find any way to complain about this (I've personally tested the > synchronization on at least 5 other recommended servers elsewhere, and > they all worked -- I've been told some servers affiliated with NAI > stopped synchronizing keys, but still allow uploads).
www.mandrakesecure.net is *NOT* in the "loop" so to speak. As it stands right now there are only 127 keys on that keyserver: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/cks/stats.cgi It's a private keyserver that does not sync with any other keyservers. It's mostly there to make keys available of Mandrake employees and various "helpers." Now compare this against wwwkeys.us.pgp.net (which is run by someone other than NAI not sure exactly who but it's on dtype.org) which as of April 10, 2002 had 1,649,308 keys: http://dtype.org/keyanalyze/200204.php That's a big difference. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
