Quoth Karsten M. Self, > I'm reading messages in queue right now and just got the following > message when trying to retrieve a key from pgp.ai.mit.edu: > > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Thu 12 Apr 2001 01:35:58 AM PDT) --] > gpg: Signature made Thu 12 Apr 2001 12:30:19 AM PDT using DSA key ID > 07182FBC > gpg: requesting key 07182FBC from pgp.ai.mit.edu ... > gpg: can't get key from keyserver: Connection refused > gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found > > I'm finding I can't connect to the keyserver using gpg from the command > line either. E.g.: > > $ gpg --send-keys karsten > gpg: can't connect to `pgp.ai.mit.edu': Connection refused > > (exit status: 2) > > Anyone else seeing this? I'm also curious as to what port(s) pgp/gpg > uses to communicate with the server, I don't know this myself.
I believe that gpg uses http to communicate with the server, as it's able to do it without additional assistance over a box-standard http proxy (squid). I have the following in my ~/.gnupg/options keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net keyserver search.keyserver.net I have tried commenting out search.keyserver.net, but that just hangs, unable to connect to the other servers. FWIW, I believe that wwwkeys.pgp.net is on a round-robbin DNS, so will randomly pick one of the keyservers. When trying to connect over the web to pgp.ai.mit.edu, I get: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/ The following error was encountered: * Connection Failed The system returned: (61) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. Maybe their server is down... cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"