Error message when refreshing keys

[Carmel NY]

On Thu, 28 May 2015 10:56:01 +0200, Dr. Peter Voigt stated:

>I am on 10.1-RELEASE (amd64) and have installed latest gpg 2.0.27
>from ports. When issuing
>
># gpg --refresh-keys
>
>operation seems to work but I am getting following error messages at
>the end:
>
>...
>gpg: keyserver communications error: Not found
>gpg: keyserver communications error: Bad public key
>gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Bad public key
>
>On an openSUSE machine I have installed gpg 2.0.22 and I have no such
>error message.
>
>Is this a know error? What does it mean? Is it FreeBSD specific? 
>
>Any hints are appreciated.

I am continually receiving this error message:

gpg: refreshing 339 keys from hkp://keys.gnupg.net
gpg: keyserver refresh failed: Invalid IPC response

I finally just gave up.
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Carmel