[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#854359: Bug#854359: Bug#854359: gnupg: always fails when --recv-keys

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: forwarded 854359 https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2928
Control: retitle 854359 dirmngr fails when reverse DNS lookups do not work

On Wed 2017-02-08 15:43:58 -0500, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> My point is that currently there is a little issue in keyservers side
> themselves.  One of keyservers in hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net doesn't
> have valid combination of PTR record and A record.  Current
> implementation of dirmngr is not robost enough to handle this
> glitch ... which should be fixed, IMO.

I agree with gniibe's observation about problems with the reverse
lookups, as well as his diagnosis that it is a lack of robustness in
dirmngr.

This was reported upstream at https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2928 --
the use of the PTR lookup is not only not useful, it's actively causing
this failure.

I've adjusted the debian bug to point to the correct upstream bug.

     --dkg
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