[ale] PGP Key servers timing out

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 17:13 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Just recently I went to verify 2 signature files the first a few days 
> ago and the other today. Both times I got timeout errors. Today's 
> specific error is;

> gpg: requesting key 9741E8AC from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
> gpg: keyserver timed out
> gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

Not uncommon for pgp.mit.edu.  I've heard recommendations to not use it
for a variety of reasons.

Right now I'm configured for hkp://keys.gnupg.net but another options is
hkp://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net for the us.

> I was trying to verify the signature file for the current Arch Linux 
> base image when doing this. I get same results whether I do it su'd to 
> root or as my user. Googleing the error had brought up some really old 
> info that didn't seem to apply when searching for answers the first 
> time. I had given up with the idea that I would try at a later date on 
> the idea that maybe the issues could be heartbleed related, but if that 
> were the case I would think that it would have been resolved by now, so 
> I'm assuming that it's something that I don't have setup right. Can 
> anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Scott C.
> 
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