Well, it turns out that the cause of our issues, the method to re-create
these keys and make things worse is already posted publicly.

Take a look at the recently reported issues on the SKS bitbucket site.

I don't think my SKS node has enough storage space to survive long
enough for this issue to be fixed.  I may have to shut it down.

Rob D




On 2018-06-15 16:01, tiker wrote:
> I don't think so but I could be wrong.  (I'm no expert here.)
>
> Binary attachments (like images) are marked as "uat [contents
> ommited]".  In this case, it's a "uid" row that starts the binary data
> instead of a text line showing a name.
>
> Here's a (temporary) link to an image of what I see:
> http://www.funkymonkey.org/tmp/bigkey.jpg
>
> I'll send an email to Kristian F. with the details about this key to
> review and comment on.
>
> Thanks.
> Rob D
>
>
> On 2018-06-15 15:24, Phil Pennock wrote:
>> On 2018-06-15 at 12:40 -0400, tiker wrote:
>>> The problems seem to be caused by a large key.  There's at least 2
>>> different hash values for this key (so probably recently updated) and
>>> one of the versions of the key is 22mb.  The size is causing timeouts on
>>> some reverse proxies and the constant retries is causing the .log files
>>> to be created and growing in the DB directory.
>> The current advice over at
>> https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering is to set
>> client_max_body_size to 8 MiB.
>>
>>> I don't think I want to post the key ID here because it's hard on the
>>> servers grabbing this key but someone should look at it and figure out
>>> what to do with this.  My node only seems to sync with about 10% of its
>>> peers.
>> Is this something with a binary image attribute?  :(
>>
>> -Phil
>
>
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