[ale] PGP Key servers timing out

[David Tomaschik]

I recommend hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net.  It gets you the full pool
that supports hkps (TLS-encrypted connections, because I like TLS.)


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Jeremy,
>
> Just got a chance to try out your suggestion of server and I'm getting the
> same thing, time out error. I originally had in my config file to search
> from the pool on the prior attempt and was getting essentially the same
> time out error, so I'm wondering if it's something at my end.
>
> Scott C.
>
>
> On 04/29/2014 09:03 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>
>> On 29.04.2014 17:13, 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> If you want you can change your keyserver to use sks.undergrid.net which
>> is part of the keyserver network itself. It is my contribution to the
>> network and is currently a 3-node HA cluster configuration, on of a handful
>> on the network.
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