Re: OGR keyserver issues?

Bruce Slade <[email protected]>
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different strokes, etc., I definitely believe in them for my
situation. I'm more concerned with ISP issue connectivity than I am
over having a perproxy crap out. But I watch the stuff pretty
close. Everyone's mileage varies in this world though. :-)

Kevin G. McCoy wrote:

Bruce,

I am not crazy about using personal proxies with a large number of cows.
A single point of failure is not a good idea if you are:

a) competitive
b) have a large number of workstations.

The stats/logs generated by a perproxy are next to useless on a very
large herd, so there is no advantage there.

I am not sure what the perproxy is good for, unless you have a very
restrictive firewall and do not have the privileges to modify the rules.

I tried using one for a year or two and was completely underwhelmed. I
ended up writing my own stats server that watches individual workstation
performance. I have my workstations set up to retrieve work
individually. Using my stats server I can watch each workstation and if
I see a problem developing, I can go fix it to keep my overall key rate up.

I have been running dnet on 60-100+ workstations 24/7/365 since the late
90's and am currently #8 in the world on the OGR contest.

http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=27&id=17415
<http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=27&id=17415>

Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy
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