Regardless of what port it's on, I've had a horrible time working with
the keyserver.net keyserver. It times out all the time, I get EOFs,
things like that. I've never actually been sure if I get anything from
(not to mention to) there.

Then one day (about 5 minutes ago) I did this:

gpg --keyserver belgium.keyserver.net --refresh-keys

And it just sat there, doing nothing. It's almost as if something is
blocking the traffic. I *am* behind a transparent proxy farm that my ISP
runs that I can do jack-squat about, so I figured that might be [part
of] the problem, but I can talk x-hkp:// to pgp.mit.edu no problem.

Very strange. So then I went and did

gpg --export --armour 57F6E7BD

And cut & paste that to the "Add a key" window of keyserver.net... and
get an error saying "The keyring you have submitted is invalid"

What's up with that?

Last I checked (and my web of trust isn't too bad) I thought I was doing
things right...

My guess is something is seriously foobar'd with keyserver.net but that
worries me because like half the FOSS world uses their servers. And if
it's not them, then...?

AfC
Sydney

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Andrew Frederick Cowie
Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd

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