On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 07:48 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. I get that every once in a while now. But it is FAR better than I was getting with my other key servers I was using. I was getting - near 2 minute response time or even timeouts. I can deal with a few 10+ second response times. I have Comcastic! Meh... crappy. I only get 1100KB/sec from kernel.org and giganews.com. For all the BAD things about Comcast, I can say that, when it is working well it _DOES_ in fact work quite well. Though, DNS is nearly always SCREWED. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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