2.1.2: keyserver route failure

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Tue Feb 17 12:21:42 CET 2015


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On 02/17/2015 02:21 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Is there any explanation for this behavior, or is this a 2.1.2
> bug? (This is using Patrick's OS X package, if that matters.  It
> also affects all keyservers I tested, not just the round-robin
> front-end.)
> 
> 
> 
> quorra:~ rjh$ gpg -vvvv --keyserver
> x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xD6B98E10 gpg: using
> character set 'utf-8' gpg: keyserver receive failed: No route to
> host
> 
> quorra:~ rjh$ ping pool.sks-keyservers.net PING
> pool.sks-keyservers.net (140.211.169.202): 56 data bytes 64 bytes
> from 140.211.169.202: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=102.879 ms
> 

You don't know that the hosts in those two situations are the same,
since it is a DNS round-robin behind the pool address. You can get
more info by increase dirmngr verbosity and looking at its logs.

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Public OpenPGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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Change pleases
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