can not ? receive key : connection timeout

[David Shaw]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:06:00PM +0700, jonathan wrote:
> Hello
>        I am a new comer in linux .  I want to receive key from key
> server with this code  I grabed .
>   
> 
> $ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 
> 
>  But I do this at my Home which have direct connection trough internet. 
> It works fine.  But when I try the same  code at my office with
> connect trough proxy .  I have to wait for a while and
> gpg print out error that "connection time out" several times. 
> I think it may because proxy. 

If you need to use a proxy, then add:

  keyserver-options http-proxy="http://whatever.your.proxy.is"

to your gpg.conf

David