[Sks-devel] Optimum number of gossip peers; mailsync with PKS network

[Jonathan Oxer]

Thanks to all the peering offers I now have 6 gossip partners for
keys.keysigning.org, which got me thinking about the optimal number in a
mesh network. There's obviously overhead in the sync protocol and it's
wasteful to check more frequently than there are changes to propagate,
so the theoretical optimum check frequency would vary inversely with the
number of peering partners and proportionally with the rate of changes.

Short version: how many peering partners is normal?

Also, now that SKS gossip is working I want to set up mailsync to the
PKS network. The 2004 docs on the wiki said that permission should be
requested before adding a PKS server to the mailsync file, but then says
that address@hidden can be added without requesting
permission.

Is there more up-to-date information about PKS sync? What's the current
best approach?

Cheers   :-)
-- 
Jonathan Oxer
Ph +61 3 9723 9399

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