using --keyserver but still getting gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-09-18 13:50:00 +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 --search-keys my at e-mail.com
>
> gpg --keyserver=hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 --search-keys my at e-mail.com
>
> gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver)
> gpg: keyserver search failed: No keyserver available
>
> What am I doing wrong?

what version of gpg?  what version of dirmngr?

modern versions of gpg should default to the hkps pool, and shouldn't
need any explicit configuration.

     --dkg