gpg: error retrieving 'erich at eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

[Erich Eckner]

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Hi Stefan,

thanks for your answer.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Stefan Claas wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 5:24 PM Erich Eckner via Gnupg-users
> <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm playing around with my WKD setup (guess, why) and encountered the
>> error in the subject when doing `gpg -vvvv --locate-external-keys
>> erich at eckner.net`. Retrieving via curl and the manually-constructed url
>> works fine, also I cannot find any problems in dns on that box. A second
>> box shows the same behaviour, but on a third machine, it works. All three
>> run the latest arch linux :-/
>>
>> What can cause a "Connection closed in DNS" error? (Maybe the error
>> message can be improved: Doesn't dns use udp by default, which is
>> connectionless?)
>
> I did a quick check and according to Wiktor's WKD checker the direct-method
> says that key is missing and the advanced method seems to be ok. sq.exe can
> fetch your key and when I do a gpg --locate-keys erich at eckner.net it
> fetches also a couple of others from you (with differrent email addresses
> , which I must admit I do not understand why and would probably not need
> when communicating with you.

Yes, this is the proper behaviour (which I also see on one machine of the 
three mentioned machines):

Advanced method is set up, direct method is not. The key has multiple UIDs 
(one for each of my email addresses). Or did I do something wrong when 
exporting the key to the WKD? Should I have removed the other UIDs there? 
(how?)

However, on two machines, I only get this strange "Connection closed in 
DNS" error. Ah, wait, I checked again, and one box says:
"gpg: error retrieving 'erich at eckner.net' via WKD: Permission denied"

Something is oddly wrong :-/

>
> Regards
> Stefan
>

regards,
Erich
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