Shouldn't keyservers store and provide subkeys?

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:44:49PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:20:02PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> > > That keyserver as well as all other servers running the old HKS
> > > software are broken.  YOu should move away from that keyserver and use
> > > an SKS one (e.g. random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de) or at least those at
> > > subkeys.pgp.net.
> > > 
> > > BTW, to avoid answering these questions over and over, should we just
> > > setup working keyservers under the gnupg.net domain?  It seems the old
> > > and broken pgp.net servers will never vanish.
> > 
> > I'm all for it.  It would be nice to point people to a keyserver set
> > that works properly with everything: multiple subkeys, photo IDs, and
> > MR output.  At the moment, this is just SKS servers.
> 
> You (gnupg.{org,net}) should run your own keyserver(s) rather than
> creating yet another DNS RR name.  I'd be happy to get you going
> with either an email feed from pks or an SKS feed.

I'm curious why it is better to run our own, when (with permission)
there are many well run SKS servers out there we can point to.

David