pgp servers hanging

[John Clizbe]

Matt Richards wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having an issue with GnuPG, I currently use it with mutt and everything
> was ok but now when I view an email that has signed data and I dont have the
> key of the person that signed the email, mutt hangs.
> 
> This appears to be due to gnupg attempting to request the key via a keyserver
> and not having much success.
> 
> The keyserver I was using with no problems is hkp://subkeys.pgp.net and since
> then I have tried a number of keyservers including mit's without much success, I
> did find one keyserver that i could connect to (LDAP based i think) but there
> didn't appear to be many keys avaliable.
> 
> I'm not behind any proxy servers or anything like that.
> 
> Does anybody know what might be going on? or are the keyservers just down?

Are they down? Mine's not.

try hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net

pool.sks-keyservers.net is a DNS round-robin consisting of 25 online and synced
SKS keyservers. hkp://subkeys.pgp.net is a six server round-robin

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Ginger Bear Networks             keyserver hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net
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