Re: Bigbrother at pgp.uni-mainz.de
Marcus Holthaus (Logintas <Marcus.Holthaus <at> logintas.ch>
2006-07-26 08:38:38 GMT
Hi Christoph, folks,
there are two problems in your mail:
1. outdated and presumably insecure software
2. outdated keyserver list
As for 1.:
I am interested in a service like this, and I have consulted it
previously. It used to be handy for debugging. We do run our own
keyserver (pgpkeys.logintas.ch:11371) and we do have a Nagios up and
running. So if there is interest, we could take over the monitoring.
There would be some differences to the current service, though:
- we would define the pgp key servers as a host and service group in our
internal nagios system
- in regular intervals we would export the corresponding html result
page to one of our public webservers
- so there would not be a "login" for admins or the like, and no direct
interaction with our nagios
- also the checks would be limited to "host" (ping), smtp (25), "sks
sync (11370)" and "openpgp keyserver service" (11371), and not include
cpu load, disk, procs or other host-internal stati
- also it would look like the standard nagios result page - no fancy
blinking buttons, but the essential "key server reachable" info would be
there
- alarming would go directly to the respective host admins, and their
names might be published on the result page
- we could do an SMS alert, but max 1 per day and max 5 times in a row
(which costs us about €1-3 per host or service downtime, which we would
sponsor).
- we suffer outages ourselves sometimes... misalerts are possible though
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