[Discuss] Keysigning Party Signup Problems

[John Abreau]

Per Bill Ricker's suggestion, I changed the scripts to use the keyserver at
keys.gnupg.net, and the BLU registration page is now workingagain.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:04 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:

> I notice the same. http://keys.gnupg.net/ does work. Jabr needs to fix
> this
> asap
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix
> PGP key id: 537C5846
> PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:30 PM Alex Pennace <alex at pennace.org> wrote:
>
> > I have been unsuccessful in registering my key (C15F0596) for the
> > keysigning
> > party tomorrow, apparently because the subkeys.pgp.net servers are down.
> >
> > Every attempt to register via
> > http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
> > returns an error:
> >
> >    C15F0596 NOT registered; gpg returned 2
> >
> > The keysigning registration page itself states that the key must be
> > available on the pgp.mit.edu keyserver, however, the two announcements
> > (http://blu.org/pipermail/announce/2019-September/000349.html and
> > http://blu.org/pipermail/announce/2019-September/000351.html) both say
> > to use subkeys.pgp.net.
> >
> > I can confirm that my key is on pgp.mit.edu, and gpg on my machine has
> > no problem fetching it. However, it appears subkeys.pgp.net is having
> > issues: None of the 3 IPs listed in the A record for subkeys.pgp.net
> > are responsive on port 11371.
> >
> > Can we switch the signup script back to using pgp.mit.edu as a
> > keyserver? Or is there anything else we can do?
> > --
> > Alex Pennace, alex at pennace.org
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