Sunday, 30 September 2012
do you dig sks.mit.edu
Random thought as we were doing cryptoparty, apparently MIT's Keyservers were updated a while back from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/ to an 'sks' server. I think I prefer the old service, IMHO it is better for teaching.
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx:~$ dig sks.mit.edu
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> sks.mit.edu
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- 11741="11741" br="br" id:="id:" noerror="noerror" opcode:="opcode:" query="query" status:="status:">;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sks.mit.edu. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
sks.mit.edu. 3585 IN A 18.7.76.74
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mit.edu. 121597 IN NS strawb.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 121597 IN NS w20ns.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 121597 IN NS bitsy.mit.edu.
;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 30 06:48:54 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx:~$ dig pgp.mit.edu
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> pgp.mit.edu
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- 10526="10526" br="br" id:="id:" noerror="noerror" opcode:="opcode:" query="query" status:="status:">;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pgp.mit.edu. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
pgp.mit.edu. 3600 IN CNAME CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu.
CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu. 3600 IN A 18.9.60.141
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mit.edu. 121588 IN NS w20ns.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 121588 IN NS bitsy.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 121588 IN NS strawb.mit.edu.
;; Query time: 273 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 30 06:49:02 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 134
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx:~$
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