28 Jan
2016
28 Jan
'16
6:56 p.m.
Trying to add a GPG key from a well-known keyserver (keys.mit.edu) but I'm getting timeouts:
$ gpg --keyserver keys.mit.edu --recv <xxxxxxx> gpg: requesting key <xxxxxxx> from hkp server keys.mit.edu gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
Same thing happens with other keyservers such as keys.gpg.org.
Googling for this throws up multiple reports of it being caused by a firewall blocking access to port 11371 (the hkp protocol). I tried opening this port but it makes no difference.
Suggestions welcome.
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