On Aug 8 09:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 7 16:34, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > currently as default Gnupg 2.x is unable to contact keyservers and recover > > any key. Gnupg 1.x has not such problem > > > > $ /usr/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5981E818 gpg: keyserver > > receive failed: No such file or directory > > > > The cryptic message is due to the absence of a /etc/resolv.conf > > as adding a simple one with a public DNS server overcomes the issue > > > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > > ; /etc/resolv.conf file for dnsmaster > > ; > > domain .com > > nameserver 0.0.0.0 > > nameserver 8.8.8.8 > > > > > > $ /usr/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5981E818 > > gpg: key D17BF2305981E818: 1 duplicate signature removed > > gpg: key D17BF2305981E818: "Andrew Makhorin <m...@mai2.rcnet.ru>" not chan > > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > > gpg: unchanged: 1 > > > > > > I would expect BIND to be a package that creates/manages resolv.conf as > > it provides a library to parser it, but I do not see any place where this is > > done. > > > > $ cygcheck -p resolv.conf > > Found 7 matches for resolv.conf > > .. > > libirs161-9.11.9-1 - libirs161: BIND resolv.conf parser library > > man-pages-linux-5.13-1 - man-pages-linux: Linux manual pages > > > > Any suggestion on how to solve the absence of /etc/resolv.conf ? > > I doubt gnupg2 is the proper package to do so. > > I can't believe (but may be wrong, of course) that gnupg2 tries to > access /etc/resolv.conf by itself. I would rather guess that gnupg2 > is linked against one or more libs provided by the bind package, > and thus uses the resolver from the bind package. However, Cygwin > provides its own resolver entry points, and those don't need > /etc/resolv.conf, because they utilize the OS resolver. > > Is there a build option to avoid building against the bind lib? > Alternatively it might be possible to inject an autoconf variable > from cygport...?
Having said that, Cygwin provides libresolv.a by itself anyway. How gets gnupg2 around that? How does it resolve? Corinna
