Re: GPG: connection refused, pgp.ai.mit.edu
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
--
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