On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:55:23PM +0000, Justus Winter via BTS wrote:

Justus Winter <justus@g10code.com> added the comment:

I can reproduce this without the proper configuration described in https://sks-
keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php#pool_hkps:

And the error is:

$ gpg --search-keys 2071B08A33BD3F06
gpg: error searching keyserver: General error
gpg: keyserver search failed: General error

Additional Info:

$ cat gpg.conf
keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net

auto-key-locate cert pka ldap hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

keyserver-options no-try-dns-srv

keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
keyserver-options no-honor-keyserver-url
keyserver-options include-revoked

1. keyserver-options honor-http-proxy
2. default-key 7CB6197E385A02DC15D8E223E4DB6492FDB9B5D5

personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES
personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256
cert-digest-algo SHA512
require-cross-certification
keyid-format 0xlong
no-emit-version
use-agent
with-fingerprint
fixed-list-mode
verify-options show-uid-validity
list-options show-uid-validity
default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 AES256 AES ZLIB BZIP2 Uncompressed

$ cat dirmngr.conf
hkp-cacert /home/tomtom/.gnupg/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem