> And there is no such thing as semi-static IP's.... it's static or > dynamic, if we are going to explain dns let's be correct about it :)
Well, if we're being correct about it... all IPs are dynamic. "Static" just means "for a given time frame, it doesn't change." I have one friend who's had the same IP address on a DHCP lease from his cable provider for over four years now: is that a static IP, or is the fact that it could change tomorrow enough to make it dynamic? You are free to make whatever policy you want for your own servers. For me, I find that it's more useful to worry about "can I resolve this hostname?" than it is to worry about whether an IP changes. > A decent pipe -- we all know that anything less then a 1mb pipe is just > going to cause issues. I don't know this. Given the typical bandwidth used by SKS, a 128k ISDN line would seem perfectly adequate. The test should be, "do you have enough spare capacity to effectively participate," not "do you meet this arbitrary requirement." If I'm using a 1.544 MB/s T1 line to BitTorrent ISOs, well, I wouldn't consider that to be a great setup for a keyserver: although I meet the arbitrary 1Mb cutoff, I likely don't have enough spare capacity to effectively participate. (In fairness, you make this point yourself later on, which confuses me: why do you maintain both that it's spare capacity which is needed, as well as an arbitrary cutoff of 1Mb/sec? The two claims seem contradictory.) > If there aren't standards set now what will happen in a couple years? I imagine that in a couple of years we will continue to run according to "loose consensus and available servers." > I have no intentions of stirring up a bees nest but maybe SKS should > have some standards to enforce. I personally want to be sure I am > peering with stable servers and not some desktop a person uses to play > games on. I often shell into my server and use it to log into MUDs. Why should that disqualify me? _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel
