gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name - for gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net

[Brandon Anderson]

> Starting on the morning of June 21 between ~6am and 9am PDT, one of 
> our CI jobs which fetches gpg keys with:
>
> gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net 
> <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net> --recv-keys ...
> .... started failing because of what looks like a failure to resolve 
> the pool name.
>
> FWIW the following also fails in the same way:
>
> gpg --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net 
> <http://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net> --recv-keys ...
>
> And testing from my machine, it looks like these names now get 
> NXDOMAIN when attempting to resolve in DNS:
>
> $ host ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net <http://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net>
>
> Host ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net 
> <http://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net> not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
>
> $ host pool.sks-keyservers.net <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net>
>
> Host pool.sks-keyservers.net <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net> not 
> found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
>
>
>
> Did these names get permanently deleted? Any workarounds or 
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>

Hey Alex,

 From what I can tell a lot of the keyservers are being shutdown. Take a 
look at the message on the SKS site (the SSL cert is expired) 
https://sks-keyservers.net/.

You can read about some of whats going on from here 
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f.

Sincerely,

Brandon Anderson

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