GnuPG Keyserver Problem

[Edward Guldemond <thedebategod@yifan.net>]

I am having problems with GnuPG and keyservers.  Any time I try a
keyserver, I get the error message "gpg: error sending to <server>:  eof".
Here is a list of what I did:

thedebategod@jazzman:~$ gpg --keyserver search.keyserver.net --send-key thedebategod@yifan.net
gpg: error sending to `search.keyserver.net': eof
thedebategod@jazzman:~$ gpg --send-key thedebategod@yifan.net
gpg: error sending to `search.keyserver.net': eof

Here are the keyserver options in my ~/.gnupg/options file:
keyserver x-hkp://search.keyserver.net:11371
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

Any ideas of what I am doing wrong here?  (PS:  I tried the keyserver
line with the x-hkp:// and :11371 removed, and it still didn't work.)

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Edward Guldemond

Key fingerprint:  29FF 2969 A04E F934 3F03  
                  4329 BC56 3AA7 2F57 6735