gpg 2.1.15, *no* keyservers found for submit/recv, "DNS query returned an error or no records: No such domain (nxdomain)"

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2016, at 03:07 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Well, seems SRV records are causing more issues than they are useful. They only ever make sense for the geographical sub-pools in order to distributed the traffic using weights there, for the rest of the pools they are a noop since allowing specific ports etc is a bad idea overall.
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> This is further complicated by gnupg 2.1 using _hkp , whereby the consensus in previous implementation has been _pgpkey-http._tcp. So where SRV is implementere it is using the original identifier.
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> Not having SRV should certainly not result in failure of operation when A and AAAA records are returned though.. 

Is there an alternative setup that does work with gnupg 2.1x that we should be using?

Or are you saying that atm gnupg 2.1x is broken, in need of a fix?