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Keyservers are hosted by volunteers as part of a distributed pool of hosts: https://sks-keyservers.net/ https://sks-keyservers.net/ And the pool's automated m
by AbacusAvenger 9y ago
Keyservers are hosted by volunteers as part of a distributed pool of hosts:
https://sks-keyservers.net/ https://sks-keyservers.net/
And the pool's automated management infrastructure prunes misbehaving hosts pretty quickly (e.g. not responding, out of sync, etc). See "servers in the pool" and "servers currently not in the pool" here:
https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
- RX14 9y agoWell I'm just reporting the reality that the keyservers are down when I want to use them, almost without fail. I suspect that gpg isn't trying multiple servers in the pool but only trying the first A record it finds. I've had to edit hosts to select a functioning key server in the pool many times.
- AbacusAvenger 9y agoBefore I learned about the SKS Keyservers pool, I had my "keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu" in my ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf, and that never failed for me unless I was in a strangely firewalled environment. Maybe try that?