[Sks-devel] 2 out of 10 pool.sks-keyservers.net not responding to pings

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

From where i sit, 2 out of 10 of the servers returned by
pool.sks-keyservers.net are not responding to ICMP echo requests (pings):

 193.174.13.74  (pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de)
 94.46.216.2    (sks.5coluna.com)

Given that the machines do respond to http requests, i wonder why they
don't respond to ICMP echo requests.  enabling ICMP echo responses on
these hosts would make for much simpler network diagnostics.

Is there a general consensus that keyservers in the well-connected pool
should (or should not) provide ICMP echo responses?

I'd like to suggest that they should, but i'd be interested in hearing
arguments to the contrary as well.

        --dkg

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