[ale] PGP Key servers timing out

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

On 29.04.2014 17:13, 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
>
> 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.

If you want you can change your keyserver to use sks.undergrid.net 
which is part of the keyserver network itself. It is my contribution to 
the network and is currently a 3-node HA cluster configuration, on of a 
handful on the network.