can't send pub key to keyservers

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 26 January 2002 23:48, Mike Watson wrote:
> I've been trying to send a new key to the public keyservers for a
> couple of days using the following command (RH Linux 7.2):
>
> gpg --keyserver www.keyserver.net --send-keys ABC123F45
>
> I'm getting an error message:
>
> gpg: error sending to `www.keyserver.net':eof
>
> This occurs on multiple public keyservers.
>
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Try if 
gpg --keyserver www.keyserver.net --send-keys 0xABC123F45
works. Note the '0x' before the key id!

Maybe gpg confuses your key id with a user id because it begins with a 
letter.

Regards,
Ingo
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