gpg and the new PGP keyserver

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Hans Müller wrote:
> Hello, I can not send or receive any keys from keyserver.pgp.com or 
> keyserver-beta.pgp.com
> when I try
> gpg --send-keys BD7C8AA1 --keyserver ldap://keyserver-beta.pgp.com
> I only get this:
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
> gpgkeys: error retrieving LDAP server info: No such object
> gpg: keyserver internal error
> gpg: keyserver send failed: keyserver error
> 
> when i try
> gpg --refresh-keys BD7C8AA1 --keyserver ldap://keyserver-beta.pgp.com
> I get this:
> gpg: refreshing 1 key from ldap://keyserver-beta.pgp.com
> gpgkeys: error retrieving LDAP server info: No such object
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0
> gpg: keyserver internal error
> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: keyserver error
> 
> any ideas??

Upgrade.

PGP used to have two LDAP keyserver.  The old one at
ldap://keyserver.pgp.com was compatible with any version of GnuPG.
The new one ldap://keyserver-beta.pgp.com is only compatible with 1.4
or later.

Recently, the keyserver.pgp.com hardware melted down, so they pointed
the keyserver.pgp.com name at the keyserver-beta.pgp.com server.  This
breaks things for GnuPG users unless they are using 1.4.

David