What Linux kernel configuration options are required by GPG for --refresh-keys?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 14 May 2015 04:41, dbdaniel42 at gmail.com said:

> #  gpg --homedir /etc/pacman.d/gnupg --refresh-keys
> gpg: refreshing 80 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Address family not supported by protocol

DNS tells that there are v6 keyservers but your kernel seems to support
only legacy IP.  Change your resolver not to return AAAA records.

I won't consider this a bug but I suspect that we will have a bug the
other way around (No legacy IP but DNS returned A records).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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