Concerns regarding T3065 dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 1 Oct 2024, at 12:20, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> BTW, the entire keyserver thing is more or less useless these days
> because there is no proper working network of keyservers anymore.

This overstates the facts. Keyservers still exist and still work, with some caveats. See https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/state-keyservers-2024.html for details. tl;dr: you have to poll multiple keyservers to be sure to get the latest updates. 

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