comment, propagation, and key servers

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:29, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> 
> > knew my public key.  The key server I used was www.keyserver.net.  Today, I 
> > uploaded (I think) to 5 other key servers to hopefully make my public key 
> 
> This is the basic fault you're making. keyserver.net has several
> difficulties:
>  - they don't (or do not often?) synchronize with the rest of the world
>  - I have frequently had troubles accessing them - apparently, only 1
> server is working.
>  - their server software is commercial (ok, this one does not matter for
> normal use).

Plus: the server has a bug that makes it not work properly with GnuPG
on all platforms....

David

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