Re: [Sks-devel] Search returns 500 MB blob

[Sascha Rommelfangen]

Hi all,

Is nobody else affected by this issue?
Nobody able to reproduce it?

Cheers,
Sascha


> On 27 May 2019, at 15:27, Sascha Rommelfangen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We’re just running into a situation where we looked up a key for the email 
> address address@hidden All keyservers we tried, including our very own one at 
> pgp.circl.lu, returned a blob of 500 MB.
> Some key servers return a timeout after 30 seconds. The situation can also be 
> tested with key ID 0x62cfc8f5, however, the returned blob is much smaller (23 
> MB). 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this or similar cases and investigated the root cause 
> and what can be done to prevent systematically the exhaustion of resources?
> 
> Thank you very much and with kind regards,
> Sascha Rommelfangen
>