On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 18:27:29 +0100, Patrick Feisthammel wrote:
Hi!
The database on my keyserver became corrupt. This caused missing updates. Additionaly two empty wot-reings have been send today.
Three actually. But I had disabled automatic processing when doing some debugging so they were never used.
I'm rebuilding the database and starting tomorrow the updates should come in regularly again.
A suggestion: What do you say about replacing the update mails with HTTP polling? Instead of sending a mail you save the .wot in some directory your web server server. Like http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/wots/ . It would probably be best if you PGP sign them. I can then regularily poll the directory through HTTP and retreive new .wots and their signatures.
+ Much easier debugging. Whenever the updates are not working today, I never know if the error is on my side, your side, or on some mail server between us. With this method it will always be simple to verify if a .wot is available on your server. + Spam filters won't affect the updates. + The redundancy of storing the .wots on two separate places is probably a good thing. + If they are PGP signed, other people can retreive them directly from you.
- Some initial work for you. - Some disk space used on your server.
What do you say? I know you are busy right now, but there's no hurry whatsoever.
Joergen: I will send you another wot-dump manually
Good.
Jörgen