On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:39:33PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Paul Baker wrote: > > > > > On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 06:28 AM, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > > > >Hi Osamu! > > > > > >You wrote: > > > > > >>-gpg --send-key --keyserver germany.keyserver.net yourkeyid > > >>+for xx in us es cz de dk uk ch; \ > > >>+gpg --send-key --keyserver wwwkeys.$xx.pgp.net yourkeyid > > > > > >Don't the keyservers sync their keyrings regularly? > > > > Yes, so the above step is totally unnecessary. You only need to send it > > to one. > > Regularily may well mean once a month or even less often. Sometimes not > at all. If you want your key (or a revocation certificate) to propagate > fast and wide upload it to as many keyservers (and different keyserver > networks) as possible. Recent experience (with my own key) indicates that keyserver.net and pgp.net sync slowly enough that it is sufficient to generate people asking me "why are you signing your emails with a key that isn't on a keyserver" *weeks* after uploading to only www.keyserver.net, because they were polling wwwkeys.us.pgp.net. Uploading twice is only a waste if it does not produce a useful result; it appears to be useful (though that is a pity), and folks should probably be encouraged to at least *check* propagation after $INTERVAL, and upload to networks that don't see the key after that time. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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