Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately
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On 01/29/07 22:01, s. keeling wrote:
> Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net>:
>> Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that
>> are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are responding
>> terribly, horrifically slow. If they respond at all, timing out is
>> becoming more and more frequent.
>
> Nope:
>
> (0) heretic /home/keeling_ time gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys AC94E4B7
> gpg: requesting key AC94E4B7 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
> gpg: key AC94E4B7: "s. keeling (21Dec2003) <keeling@spots.ab.ca>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg: unchanged: 1
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys AC94E4B7
> 0.03s user 0.01s system 5% cpu 0.605 total
Your test was possibly not valid. Note the difference in speeds
between when I, moments apart, fetched your keys.
$ time gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys AC94E4B7
gpg: requesting key AC94E4B7 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key AC94E4B7: "s. keeling (21Dec2003) <keeling@spots.ab.ca>"
not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
real 0m17.315s
user 0m0.018s
sys 0m0.007s
$ time gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys AC94E4B7
gpg: requesting key AC94E4B7 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key AC94E4B7: "s. keeling (21Dec2003) <keeling@spots.ab.ca>"
not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
real 0m0.374s
user 0m0.018s
sys 0m0.004s
> Who's your provider?
Cox, which is fast enough that on good nights I get 700KBps download
speeds from kernel.org.
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