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

[Andreas Puls]

Am 15.04.2021 um 16:39 schrieb 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
Reconfigured both of mine. Should be working.

> > 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).
Full ACK.
> I can open a PR to change the default software key value from hockeypuck
> to Hockeypuck.
> > Thanks, everyone.
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin Dobrev
Greetz
  Andreas