Re: Simulating SKS best practice [Was: keyserver.dobrev.eu is back running Hockeypuck]

[Martin Dobrev]

Hi Andrew and team,

On 15/04/2021 12:33, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> On 23/03/2021 12:58, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> > On 21/03/2021 21:48, Martin Dobrev wrote:
> > > I had to play with mod_rewrite and force a redirect from 
> > > //pks/lookup?op=stats&options=mr/ to //pks/lookup?op=stats /to let 
> > > the script parse HTML. I don't have a proper explanation why peers 
> > > and recon port are not picked from the produced JSON but left out 
> > > (line 286/287).
> >
> > I can confirm this works, and it has the unexpected side effect that 
> > pgpkeys.eu is now recognised as SKS, even though it is still 
> > declaring itself Hockeypuck.
>
> The following hockeypuck servers appear to have implemented a stats 
> rewrite rule:
>
> keyserver.dobrev.eu
Server has been reconfigured with the below additional rule.
> pgp.cyberbits.eu
> keys.okash.it
> keys*.andreas-puls.de
>
> Could I humbly request of hockeypuck operators that this workaround be 
> limited to sks-keyservers.net's IP address? This would allow the 
> machine-readable JSON to be read by other spiders which may or may not 
> exist in the future... ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> For example, pgpkeys.eu uses the following apache snippet:
>
> ```
> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^37\.191\.231\.105
> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} op=stats&options=mr
> RewriteRule ^/pks/lookup http://127.0.0.1:11371/pks/lookup?op=stats [P,L]
> ```
>
> Similarly, could we collectively agree to emit {software: 
> "Hockeypuck"} and the real Hockeypuck version number when simulating 
> SKS, so that the human-readable status is accurate? So long as 
> "Hockeypuck" has a capital "H", the pool spider shouldn't reject you 
> (it may reject you for other reasons, but not for running hockeypuck).
I can open a PR to change the default software key value from hockeypuck 
to Hockeypuck.
> Thanks, everyone.


Regards,
Martin Dobrev

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