Re: number of keys reported by hockeypuck

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 14/09/2021 16:51, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> 3. I see a big differentce with my peers. As an example, I'm peering
>     with pgpkeys.eu, and it reports:
>
>     Day            New   Updated
>     2021-09-08      1   46248
>     2021-09-09      2   40641
>     2021-09-10      6   36949
>     2021-09-11      6   26264
>     2021-09-12      6   42388
>     2021-09-13      37  41187
>     2021-09-14      3   23073
>
>     It seems I'm missing all those updates (tens of thousands daily).

You don't want those updates, they're not real. See earlier thread:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2021-05/msg00003.html

> > The number of real new keys entering the synchronising network has
> > reduced to one every few days now that the pool DNS entries no longer
> > resolve. Some hockeypuck servers report a large number of updated keys
> > every day, but this is almost exclusively churn - I suspect it is due to
> > inconsistent ordering of packets between different keyservers.
>
> Quite possible. But the difference is huge. And the odds of it
> reaching _zero_ for a full week smells very fishy :-(

OK, you should be getting *some* new keys, even discounting the 
thousands of false-positive updated keys. Let me look into it.

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