Re: [gentoo-user] Change keyserver used by portage?

[Bill Kenworthy]

On 04/07/18 13:09, Adam Carter wrote:
>
>     Since you know the server IPs, and there's only a small number so
>     you could try connection to each of them and see which one(s) fail.
>
>     Or tcpdump, or netstat etc.
>
>
> FWIW i can route to all the v4 addresses;
>
> # for i in 18.9.60.141 18.191.65.131 37.191.226.104 92.43.111.21
> 193.164.133.100 216.66.15.2 ; do nc -zv $i 443; done
> cryptonomicon.mit.edu <http://cryptonomicon.mit.edu> [18.9.60.141] 443
> (https) open
> ec2-18-191-65-131.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
> <http://ec2-18-191-65-131.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com>
> [18.191.65.131] 443 (https) open
> host-37-191-226-104.lynet.no <http://host-37-191-226-104.lynet.no>
> [37.191.226.104] 443 (https) open
> Warning: forward host lookup failed for oteiza.siccegge.de
> <http://oteiza.siccegge.de>:
> oteiza.siccegge.de <http://oteiza.siccegge.de> [92.43.111.21] 443
> (https) open
> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: mail.b4ckbone.de <http://mail.b4ckbone.de> !=
> beta.b4ckbone.de <http://beta.b4ckbone.de>
> mail.b4ckbone.de <http://mail.b4ckbone.de> [193.164.133.100] 443
> (https) open
> zimmermann.mayfirst.org <http://zimmermann.mayfirst.org> [216.66.15.2]
> 443 (https) open
>
I tried the host hack - still fails though a different message.  I
suspect the keyservers are not the problem because:

"gpg --homedir /var/lib/gentoo/gkeys/keyrings/gentoo/release --refresh-keys"

mostly works fine (with or without the hosts hack).

But I have never had a successful run with emerge --sync

Portage is sys-apps/portage-2.3.40-r1


Bug or what?


BillK