[Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net having trouble?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

hey folks--

i have some machines which make regular queries against
pool.sks-keyservers.net using gpg, and report when those queries fail
(return a non-zero status).

I've noticed intermittent failures from pool.sks-keyservers.net (gpg
returns status code 2) over the last few days, but i'm not sure which IP
addresses are actually queried in the failed queries.

FWIW, the queries are all exact matches. that is, they use the form:

  --search ='Full User ID <address@hidden>'

So i guess i'm wondering about a few things:

 * is anyone else seeing the same behavior?

 * does anyone know of a way to get gpg to report the actual IP
addresses queried?  (this is happening with both gpg 1.4.9 and 1.4.10)

 * are any keyserver operators doing client rate-limiting or something
similar which might respond poorly to a batch of closely-spaced requests?

 * what kind of reliability do folks expect from this pool?  How often
do you see queries?

Regards,

        --dkg

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