[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#849845: Bug#849845: Bug#849845: dirmngr: Can't resolve keyserver hostname anymore

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Werner Koch:
> On Mon,  2 Jan 2017 13:46, intrigeri at debian.org said:
>> ... which is expected if querying 127.0.0.1, that doesn't support
>> SRV records.

> The question is whether we should gracefully handle this failure and
> return 0 records found (as done < 2.1.17)?

I lack the background that would allow me to have any informed opinion
on this topic. Today I'm merely a user whose GnuPG got broken by an
upgrade :)

>>   Jan 02 13:37:57 dirmngr[8281]: DBG: dns: resolve_dns_name(hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net): Success
>>   Jan 02 13:37:57 dirmngr[8281]: can't connect to 'hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net': no IP address for host

> I can't replicate this [...]

Ouch. I see this consistently after I've seen the previous
(SRV) failure.

> What options do you have in your dirmngr.conf ?

I only have:

  debug-all
  use-tor

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri