On 30/11/11 16:25, David Shaw wrote: >> mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ gpg --keyserver grepular.com --recv-key 11111111 >> gpg: requesting key 11111111 from hkp server grepular.com >> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: Failed to connect to >> 2001:470:1f09:1186::beef: Network is unreachable >> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. >> gpg: Total number processed: 0 >> mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ >> >> Why is gpg trying to connect to the IPv6 address here? The machine I'm >> running it from doesn't have an IPv6 address, so it should be using the >> A record instead of the AAAA record... >> >> mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ ifconfig|grep inet6 >> mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ >> >> I'm running GnuPG 2.0.14 on Ubuntu 11.04 >> >> P.S. There isn't a keyserver at grepular.com, so I wasn't expecting it >> to work. I just wasn't expecting it to use the AAAA record instead of >> the A record. > > Hmm. GnuPG uses libcurl to do the HTTP part of fetching keys, so this might > actually be a Curl question. Curl (at least on Linux) uses getaddrinfo to > resolve out the IPv4 vs IPv6 question. What happens if you do "curl -v > http://grepular.com:11371"; on the command line? > > See also http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man5/gai.conf.5.html
Seems curl tries IPv4 then IPv6. mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ curl -v http://grepular.com:11371 * About to connect() to grepular.com port 11371 (#0) * Trying 178.79.145.246... Connection refused * Trying 2001:470:1f09:1186::beef... Failed to connect to 2001:470:1f09:1186::beef: Network is unreachable * Success * couldn't connect to host * Closing connection #0 curl: (7) Failed to connect to 2001:470:1f09:1186::beef: Network is unreachable -- Mike Cardwell https://grepular.com/ https://twitter.com/mickeyc Professional http://cardwellit.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/mikecardwell PGP.mit.edu 0018461F/35BC AF1D 3AA2 1F84 3DC3 B0CF 70A5 F512 0018 461F
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