"keyserver receive failed: Try again later" on macOS

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 14 Jun 2025, at 21:36, Walt Mankowski via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 
> Every time I try to import a key, it fails almost immediately with the error
> 
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: Try again later
> 
> I've tried a number of different keyservers and keep getting the same error. I have an Ubuntu box on the same network. I've run the same command on each box, for example:
> 
> gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77D4D81DC47D68FA9E9E6A7C5DF19E2B67A7B584
> 
> This imports the key on Ubuntu but gives me the "Try again later" error on macOS.
> 
> I looked online for help but didn't find very much. I've set ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf to
> 
> log-file ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.log
> debug-level guru
> standard-resolver
> 
> and restarted dirmngr, but that had very little effect. In particular nothing gets logged to dirmngr.log.

This is most likely a name resolution error. What are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file?

A

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