sending keys

[Ben Woodard]

Excuse me for being a bit clueless. I am very new to all this
crytography stuff but I have come to a place where I actually have a
compelling reason to use it.

What am I doing wrong?

[ben@wythe ben]$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.net --send-key ben 
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: can't connect to `keyserver.net': Success
[ben@wythe ben]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.net --send-key ben
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: can't connect to `hkp://keyserver.net': Success