"keyserver receive failed: Try again later" on macOS

Jacob Bachmeyer jcb62281 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 03:38:12 CEST 2025


On 6/15/25 06:36, Walt Mankowski via Gnupg-users wrote:
> [...]
>
> I couldn't find any similar error reports on gnupg-users or 
> gnupg-devel. It does make searching a bit tough, though, when I keep 
> finding it referred to as "OSX" or "OS X" even though Apple changed 
> the name to "macOS" back in 2016.

That is because the community seems to have largely rejected Apple's 
renaming of "Mac OS X" because a previous (very different) "MacOS" 
product is indistinguishable from "macOS" in a case-insensitive index.

Strictly, it is "Mac OS X", "OSX" and "OS X" are other, obscure systems.


-- Jacob




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