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litoy2x

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Registered: 2014-01-31

Posts: 3

pacman-key gpg: keyserver timed out or error

Hi,

Is there something wrong with the keyservers? I've tried refreshing my key but was so unsuccessful. Did I miss a configuration?

# pacman-key --refresh-keys
gpg: refreshing 75 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: requesting key 3A65090E from hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net
.................................
.................................
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Keyserver error
==> ERROR: A specified local key could not be updated from a keyserver.

# nslookup 'pool.sks-keyservers.net'
Server:        192.168.1.1
Address:    192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 193.17.17.6
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 193.224.163.43
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 198.48.193.174
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 203.33.246.146
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 5.135.187.135
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 46.4.212.178
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 81.23.226.83
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 85.143.112.59
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 130.206.1.8
Name:    pool.sks-keyservers.net
Address: 188.40.79.215

[root@hydra ~]# ping pool.sks-keyservers.net
PING pool.sks-keyservers.net (193.17.17.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from key.ip6.li (193.17.17.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=286 ms
64 bytes from key.ip6.li (193.17.17.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=286 ms
64 bytes from key.ip6.li (193.17.17.6): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=284 ms
64 bytes from key.ip6.li (193.17.17.6): icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=342 ms
^C64 bytes from 193.17.17.6: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=284 ms

--- pool.sks-keyservers.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 10314ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 284.080/296.950/342.995/23.055 ms

Any advice?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman-key gpg: keyserver timed out or error

When posting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … mport_keys ?