[ale] PGP Key servers timing out

Dustin Strickland dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 17:39:37 EDT 2014


It seems like their HKP server is offline -- nslookup says pgp.mit.edu
points to cryptonomicon.mit.edu and I'm getting nothing but lost
packets when I ping it. nmap doesn't show anything either. Sounds like
a job opening to me; I'm putting in an application right now :P

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:30:50 -0400
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 17:13 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Just recently I went to verify 2 signature files the first a few
> > days ago and the other today. Both times I got timeout errors.
> > Today's specific error is;
> 
> > gpg: requesting key 9741E8AC from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
> > gpg: keyserver timed out
> > gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
> 
> Not uncommon for pgp.mit.edu.  I've heard recommendations to not use
> it for a variety of reasons.
> 
> Right now I'm configured for hkp://keys.gnupg.net but another options
> is hkp://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net for the us.
> 
> > I was trying to verify the signature file for the current Arch
> > Linux base image when doing this. I get same results whether I do
> > it su'd to root or as my user. Googleing the error had brought up
> > some really old info that didn't seem to apply when searching for
> > answers the first time. I had given up with the idea that I would
> > try at a later date on the idea that maybe the issues could be
> > heartbleed related, but if that were the case I would think that it
> > would have been resolved by now, so I'm assuming that it's
> > something that I don't have setup right. Can anyone shed some light
> > on this?
> > 
> > Scott C.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sent to you NSA, the CIA, FBI and God only knows who else?!
> > 
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