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Re: [Sks-devel] 2 out of 10 pool.sks-keyservers.net not responding to pi
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Joseph Oreste Bruni |
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Re: [Sks-devel] 2 out of 10 pool.sks-keyservers.net not responding to pings |
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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:20:04 -0700 |
On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Ping isn't really a reliable test of a functioning SKS
> server anyhow, it just means the box is up.
Not even that: It just means that something with that IP address replied. Your
SKS server's IP address could be front-ended with a reverse proxy (e.g., to
implement SSL). If the proxy responds to ICMP-ECHO you know nothing about the
actual SKS server.