Error message when refreshing keys

[Dr. Peter Voigt]

On Thu, 28 May 2015 06:48:31 -0400
Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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.

Hm, that's even worse. Does it mean you cannot refresh at all? On my
machine keyring refresh is at least taking place in spite of the error
message, but I cannot be sure everything is working correctly.