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May 23 2019

wheelerlaw reopened T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure as "Open".

Are you not reading what I am saying to you?? Once again, your explanation is INVALID because that would mean that gnupg would be BROKEN, because it would be a NON-COMPLIANT http client according to the RFC I quoted.

May 23 2019, 1:58 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr

Mar 19 2019

wheelerlaw added a comment to T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure.

Also might I add, this used to work perfectly fine in gnupg14. It seems that somewhere along the line a regression was introduced that is causing this erroneous non-compliant behavior in the HTTP client.

Mar 19 2019, 6:18 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr
wheelerlaw added a comment to T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure.

Why? Your explanation is invalid because it implicates dirmngr's HTTP client as not comforming to the spec laid out by the RFC. I've quite clearly explained--and backed up with the spec itself--that when a proxy variable is configured, a client should not be doing DNS lookup of the destination hostname. Is there something about that you are not understanding?

Mar 19 2019, 6:13 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr

Mar 18 2019

wheelerlaw reopened T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure as "Open".

Yes you can, and no you do not. Don't believe me? Then read the spec. At no point does the spec say that there is "nothing that can be done" when a hostname cannot be resolved when connecting through a proxy. In fact, it states precisely the opposite, describing the exact procedure a client should take when making a request through a proxy. See section 5.3, paragraph 3:

Mar 18 2019, 9:21 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr

Dec 14 2018

wheelerlaw edited projects for T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure, added: gnupg (gpg22); removed FAQ.
Dec 14 2018, 7:29 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr
wheelerlaw added a comment to T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure.

So if your DNS resolver does not tell us the IP addresses, we can't do anything about it.

Dec 14 2018, 7:25 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr

Aug 21 2018

wheelerlaw added a comment to T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure.

A workaround for this until the HTTP client is fixed is to just use curl instead:

Aug 21 2018, 5:59 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr
wheelerlaw added a comment to T3065: dirmngr: proxy issues with dnslookup causing failure.

I am running into the same exact issue. It seems that dirmng is incorrectly attempting to resolve the addresses for the keyservers despite having been given an HTTP proxy to connect through.

Aug 21 2018, 5:31 PM · gnupg (gpg22), dns, dirmngr