trouble retrieving keys from keyserver

Guy Van Sanden sienix@crosswinds.net
Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:22:11 GMT


Try this before the command:
unset http_proxy

It worked for me... 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 07/01/2001, 15:01:40, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote regarding Re: trouble retrieving keys from keyserver:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, sVennieboy wrote:

> > svenniboy@D5E03575:~$ gpg --recv-key 0xDE611F23
> > gpg: requesting key DE611F23 from www.keyserver.net ...
> > gpg: [fd 4]: read error: Connection reset by peer
> > gpg: Total number processed: 0
> > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

> Strange, but it is a problem of the keyserver and not GnuPG. I
> can't see a reason why it should depend on whether you put
> --keyserver in the options file or on the commandline.

> Afaik, the *.keyserver.net stuff is not very reliable and I recently
> heard about a lot of problems.

> I am currently using horowitz.surfnet.nl

> Werner

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