gpg: error searching keyserver: Network is unreachable

[Klaus Ethgen]

Hi Christian,

Am Sa den  6. Mär 2021 um  8:44 schrieb Christian Ribeaud:
> Desperately searching for hours now???
> I am NOT able to run following command:
> 
> gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.dcc.sib.swiss:80 --keyserver-options no-self-sigs-only,no-import-clean --search-keys <any-key>
> 
> Always getting following output:
> 
> gpg: error searching keyserver: No keyserver available
> gpg: keyserver search failed: No keyserver available

Remember, dirmng is using tor by default if it is installed and running!

You have to put no-use-tor to your .gnupg/dirmngr.conf to prevent this.

This did cost me hours to find out, when the feature was implemented.

Regards
   Klaus
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