Hi Phil-- On Fri 2016-01-15 23:07:53 -0500, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > Sometime recently gpg2.1 stopped handling HKPS keyservers. dirmngr can > still do it if I ask directly, but gpg2.1 won't. All of the debug info I > can think of is below. > > Relevant ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf lines: > > keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve no-honor-keyserver-url include-revoked > > Relevant ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf lines: > > hkp-cacert /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem > > When I try through gpg (first without debug for clarity) I get: > > $ gpg --search-key 58E11BB1E414D9AD > gpg: error searching keyserver: General error > gpg: keyserver search failed: General error
this looks like gpg, since the 2.1 series is currently provided as /usr/bin/gpg2. what does gpg --version tell you? gpg 2.1 never talks to the network itself at all; it relies entirely on dirmngr to do that work. --dkg