[RC5] Keyserver issues?

[Ralph W. Reid]

Whenever the sizes of the OGR stubs being distributed is small, the
distributing systems and/or their associated networks seem to get
overloaded.  When this happens, the systems seem to have a variety of
problems such as being out of stubs to distribute or not being able to
connect to at all.  This was the case around the time your system ran
into some wierdness, and a good clue to this fact is in the stub
information you provided:

> ... 25/54-7-25-5-12 (0.79 stats units)

If the number immediately following the '25/' is high (and '54' is
quite high), then the stub will be short ('0.79 stats units' is quite
short).  If you receive a short stub like this, then chances are that
the rest of us are being issued similarly short stubs.  This means
that a large number of clients and proxies are all trying to connect
and return and receive stubs in quick succession, causing an overload
of the distributing systems and/or their associated networks.  I
processed _many_ such short stubs here recently, but the stubs being
distributed now are very much longer.  By the time anyone reads this,
I expect that the network will be running more smoothly.  I write this
from observations and experience, not from any official capacity.

HTH, and have a great day.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:45:01AM -0800, Kevin McCoy wrote:

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