PKS network mailsync peers

Jonathan Oxer <jon-abAX4bI65Sy6c6uEtOJ/[email protected]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:16:58 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.pgp.sks,gmane.comp.encryption.pgp.keyserver-folk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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I've been running an SKS keyserver now for a little while with no
mailsync entry to send updates to the PKS network. Looking through the
various keyservers listed at http://sks-keyservers.net/status/ many of
them seem to have either no mailsync entry at all, or an obviously bogus
entry (such as keyserver.ubuntu.com, which lists "devnull@localhost" as
the mailsync peer), or list "pgp-public-keys-BhLahS+xlCYb8dTIPxInEtBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org" as
their peer.

I just did some testing with the KJSL address as my mailsync peer and
any update messages I send it are rejected with a message that the
address is invalid:

Dec  6 13:46:56 keys postfix/qmgr[3199]: 4DC1543C190:
from=3D<root-/[email protected]>, size=3D15251, nrcpt=3D1 (queue active)
Dec  6 13:46:59 keys postfix/smtp[21570]: 4DC1543C190:
to=3D<pgp-public-keys-BhLahS+xlCYb8dTIPxInEtBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
relay=3Dspamfilter.layer42.net[69.36.224.13], delay=3D3, status=3Dbounced
(host spamfilter.layer42.net[69.36.224.13] said: 550 cuda_nsu 5.1.1
<pgp-public-keys-BhLahS+xlCYb8dTIPxInEtBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>: Recipient address rejected: User
unknown in virtual alias table (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Dec  6 13:46:59 keys postfix/cleanup[21568]: C81EF43C191:
message-id=3D<20071206024659.C81EF43C191-toYzJ0RfoA71iH0RajM6Wodd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org>
Dec  6 13:46:59 keys postfix/qmgr[3199]: 4DC1543C190: removed

So, two questions.

1. Does it matter about not having a mailsync setting?

2. If it does matter, is there a particular PKS mailserver that I should
peer with?

Cheers    :-)
--=20
Jonathan Oxer
Ph +61 3 9723 9399

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