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 26, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Could you please put in a `getinfo version` here just to check that the
> dirmngr you're talking to here is the same one found in $PATH when you
> invoked the binary directly?
> 
> And then, also while connected to dirmngr:
> 
>    keyserver --help
> 
> to see the list of schemas which your build claims to know about, for
> reaching keyservers.

yep ...

GNUPGHOME=$(mktemp -d) gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr
	gpg-connect-agent: no running Dirmngr - starting '/usr/bin/dirmngr'
	gpg-connect-agent: waiting for the dirmngr to come up ... (5s)
	gpg-connect-agent: connection to the dirmngr established
> getinfo version
	D 2.1.15
	OK
> keyserver --help
	S # Known schemata:
	S #   hkp
	S #   hkps
	S #   http
	S #   https
	S #   finger
	S #   kdns
	S #   ldap
	S # (Use an URL for engine specific help.)
	OK
>