dirmngr logging confusion when trying to connect to a local keyserver (more reverse DNS?)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-11-13 15:17:49 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Nov 2017 22:29, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>
>>    2017-10-01 06:17:00 dirmngr[32208.6] DBG: dns: resolve_dns_name(127.0.0.1): Success
>>    2017-10-01 06:17:00 dirmngr[32208.6] can't connect to '127.0.0.1': no IP address for host
>
> Maybe a missing localhost entry in /etc/hosts?  I can imagine that our
> libdns.c does not have a hardwired  name for localhost.  That would be
> easy to fix.

where do you imagine such a fix landing?  in libdns.c ?

> The problem with libdns.c is that Justus and me tried hard to get our
> fixes upstream but never got any reply from the original author except
> for one message that he will look at them.  Meanwhile I think it might
> be better to giveup on trying to get it upstream and keep on fixing
> problems ourself - which would include better documentaion of the code.

ouch, that sounds frustrating.

>> Also, why is dirmngr trying to look up names for addresses? i don't know
>> whether "resolve_dns_name" is A/AAAA lookup and "resolve_dns_addr" is
>
> So that we can return and store the hostname with a key.

I don't understand this.  Why would a hostname be relevant to anyone,
given the configuration that the user asked for?  Are you talking about
a cryptographic key or some other sort of key?

  --dkg