On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:47 AM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Perhaps the problem here is not the option, but the behavior on failure.  If 
> querying the preferred keyserver does not return a response during a refresh 
> (for whatever reason), maybe GPG should continue on and try to get the key 
> from the standard --keyserver location.
> 
> After all, it's a "preferred" keyserver.  Not an "exclusive" key server.

Yes! That would be awesome. :)  A warning message in there somewhere of course, 
but being able to automatically recover from that condition would make the 
whole system a lot more robust. 

Doug


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