list of keyservers?

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Sat Jan 5 23:08:01 2002


On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:35:31PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Johan Andersson <johan@nforced.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, Nick Wilson <nick@explodingnet.com> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> I'm in the middle of a rather fuuitless search for a good keyserver near
> >> me. (Denmark)
> >> Is there a directory of list on the web?
> >
> > I use pks.pgp.dk.  So far it's been good enough for me.  For a list of
> > keyservers, try typing 'host -l pgp.net' in your nearest shell.
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This hasn't worked for a long time for me, is it supposed to?  It
> seems as if pgp.net's nameservers have disabled zone transfers.
> 
> $ host -l pgp.net
> Host pgp.net. not found: 9(NOTAUTH)
> ; Transfer failed.
> $

Only one of the seven pgp.net nameservers have disabled zone
transfers.  You may have just gotten unlucky :)

Try "host -l pgp.net ns0.pipex.net".  You can get the list of possible
nameservers to try with "host -t ns pgp.net".  "nac.no" is the
one that disabled zone transfers.

David

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