Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ?

Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:59:44 -0600
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Francesco Poli dijo [Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:34:43PM +0100]:
>Hello Gunnar,
>thanks for your reply.
>
>However, it seems to me that this keyserver (or keyserver network)
>works unreliably.
>
>I tried to refresh 50 keys and gpg found 17 of them on the keyserver
>and exited with zero exit status.
>
>Then I tried again to refresh *the same* 50 keys and gpg found only 3 of
>them (+ 1 that it hadn't found in the previous run) and exited with
>non-zero exit status, spitting out the following error message:
>
>  gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No data
>
>I had never had so many issues with a keyserver before last week...

That is very weird, and does not match my experience =E2=80=94 but I see yo=
u share
my surprise :-] I hope it was a transient issue.

I will share this thread with some of the people responsible for servers in
that network. In any case, you can also use Noodles' keyserver, based on a
completely different codebase (Onak), at https://the.earth.li/ =E2=80=94 I =
trust
him to be among the most capable operators, only that this keyserver does
not peer with any others TTBOMK.

Greetings,

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