Package: dirmngr Version: 2.1.17-6 Followup-For: Bug #849845 Dear Maintainer,
For the record - this bug shows upstream is already aware of possible problems with IPv6 - on this IPv6 host, dirmngr is unable to find the default hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net pg2 --search-keys somekeyhere gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) gpg: keyserver search failed: No keyserver available with the debug log showing: DBG: chan_6 <- KS_SEARCH -- somekeyhere_again can't connect to 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net': no IP address for host error connecting to 'https://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net:443': Unknown host dirmngr[29062.6] marking host 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net' as dead dirmngr[29062.6] host 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net' marked as dead dirmngr[29062.6] command 'KS_SEARCH' failed: No keyserver available gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'keyserver --alive hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net' /bye S # marking 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net' as alive OK with the debug log showing DBG: chan_6 -> OK Dirmngr 2.1.17 at your service dirmngr[29062.6] connection from process 15130 (1000:1000) dirmngr[29062.6] DBG: chan_6 <- keyserver --alive hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net dirmngr[29062.6] DBG: chan_6 -> S # marking 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net' as alive dirmngr[29062.6] DBG: chan_6 -> OK but then, again: gpg2 --search-keys samesomekeyhere gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) gpg: keyserver search failed: No keyserver available -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dirmngr depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-2 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.5-3 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-1 ii libgpg-error0 1.26-2 ii libksba8 1.3.5-2 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.44+dfsg-3 ii libnpth0 1.3-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 Versions of packages dirmngr recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.17-6 Versions of packages dirmngr suggests: ii dbus-user-session 1.10.14-1 ii pinentry-gnome3 1.0.0-1 pn tor <none> -- no debconf information
