keyserver access on Win2k

Leigh S. Jones kr6x@kr6x.com
Thu Apr 25 16:11:01 2002


I was having trouble making gpg for W32 talk to keyservers on both
winnt and win2k.  Probably would have had the same problem on
win9x.  Linux worked fine.  It's probably a protocol problem.  You
have to use http servers -- port 80 -- only, no LDAP, etc.  Worked
it out when I let WinPT take over for me calling gpg and suddenly
there were keyservers that worked...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Spong" <spong@freedom.org>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:21 AM
Subject: keyserver access on Win2k


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> Hi
>
> I'm trying to get GnuPG 1.0.6-2 to retrieve a key from a keyserver
in
> Windows 2000 (using the binary package found on www.gnupg.org).
> Whenever I try to request a key, though, it gives me an error
> (instantly... it's not even trying to query the keyserver):
>
> (~/c/gnupg) 5:18am spong@deadzone> ./gpg.exe --recv-keys 0x12345678
> gpg: requesting key 12345678 from wwwkeys.pgp.net ...
> gpg: write failed: ec=87
> gpg: can't get key from keyserver: No error
>
> This works fine with the same version of GnuPG on Linux, but not on
> Win2k.  Does anybody else have this problem?  Is there a workaround
or a
> fix?
>
> thanks
> Matt
>
> - --
> Matt Spong <spong@freedom.org>
> http://www.forkbomb.net
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