keyserver.ubuntu.com down?

Does pinging the server work for you? (Open terminal, type "ping keyserver.ubuntu.com". When you want to stop the pinging, press Ctrl+C). In my case it works.

Didn't think of that. I'm getting a ping, but cant access via http to get the key.

here is what i'm getting (using the key from the launchpad ppa)

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 951DC1E2
gpg: requesting key 951DC1E2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

How about trying tomorrow?

Just tried it again and it seems to be back up.

"Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 951DC1E2
gpg: requesting key 951DC1E2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 951DC1E2: public key "Launchpad PPA for Blueman Development Team" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)"

thanks for your help.

Seems to be down again...

Just posting for an FYI.

Down again. I mention it for record...

I can confirm that it is also down for me as well.

It appears to be back up today.

Heh, dooown... :/

Down again. Must be running Ubuntu or something... :-/

It seems to be down again.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/keyserver.ubuntu.com

Down again

Down again......... its too bad......

Still down. =(

I was trying to get a key from that server for 1 hour and then used subkeys.pgp.net instead and it worked just fine for me

Down again. This is like playing the lotto.

These are some keyservers that are often used for looking up keys with "gpg --recv-key"
keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu
keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net (random server)
keyserver hkp://keys.nayr.net
keyserver http://keys.gnupg.net
keyserver http://wwwkeys.xx.pgp.net where xx is a two-letter country code.

Try them in a browser first to see if they are up.

And down again.
The alternate servers proposed by Snyper82 did fix it for me though...

It's down again on November 9.....

Hoping Ubuntu Team is fixing it.

It's down again.

Folks, keyserver.ubuntu.com is up. Perhaps, your firewall is blocking the outbound traffic on port 11371 as it was in my case.

Still down for me, and no firewall. But other addresses do not work too. What can be the problem then?

i too had a similar problem (trying to install wine on 10.04). i don't have a firewall installed, and none of the key servers listed above worked for me when i tried.

i found the comments at http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/adding-a-ppas-key-to-ubuntu#comment-39340 very useful. the solution i ended up with was:
1) download the key from http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371
2) imported the key file from "Software Sources > Authentication" tab
3) continued with the installation.

I finally managed to do it with:

sudo gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 1378B444

Im not convinced this is a problem with the keyserver being unavailable, or with firewall permissions.

I'm seeing it while running an ansible play against two vagrant vms which are identical.
Originally, app-infra-1 downloaded the key fine.
It began having problems. I can only guess i interrupted the play during key download and it got corrupted.
However, on subsequent runs wiping app-infra-2 clean the latter vm downloaded the key just fine while app-infra-1 failed with the timeout error in this thread.

Here is some of my debugging effort. Deleting the key didn't seem to work. The key i am trying to download is EEA14886 .
Note that it is not found in the update.

root@app-infra-1:~# apt-key update
gpg: key 437D05B5: "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>" not changed
gpg: key FBB75451: "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>" not changed
gpg: key C0B21F32: "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>" not changed
gpg: key EFE21092: "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 4
gpg: unchanged: 4

# However, we do see it here.

root@app-infra-1:~# apt-key net-update
root@app-infra-1:~# apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg
--------------------
pub 1024D/437D05B5 2004-09-12
uid Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>
sub 2048g/79164387 2004-09-12

pub 1024D/FBB75451 2004-12-30
uid Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>

pub 4096R/C0B21F32 2012-05-11
uid Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>

pub 4096R/EFE21092 2012-05-11
uid Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>

pub 1024R/EEA14886 2010-05-04
uid Launchpad VLC

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/puppetlabs-keyring.gpg
---------------------------------------------
pub 4096R/4BD6EC30 2010-07-10 [expires: 2016-07-08]
uid Puppet Labs Release Key (Puppet Labs Release Key) <email address hidden>

# I can delete the key
root@lynx-infra-1:~# apt-key del EEA14886
OK
root@lynx-infra-1:~# apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg
--------------------
pub 1024D/437D05B5 2004-09-12
uid Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>
sub 2048g/79164387 2004-09-12

pub 1024D/FBB75451 2004-12-30
uid Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>

pub 4096R/C0B21F32 2012-05-11
uid Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>

pub 4096R/EFE21092 2012-05-11
uid Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key (2012) <email address hidden>

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/puppetlabs-keyring.gpg
---------------------------------------------
pub 4096R/4BD6EC30 2010-07-10 [expires: 2016-07-08]
uid Puppet Labs Release Key (Puppet Labs Release Key) <email address hidden>

# However, the error persists.

root@lynx-infra-1:~# apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 7B2C3B0889BF5709A105D03AC2518248EEA14886
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --homedir /tmp/tmp.VUJnQK2SEK --no-auto-check-trustdb --trust-model always --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/puppetlabs-keyring.gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 7B2C3B0889BF5709A105D03AC2518248EEA14886
gpg: requesting key EEA14886 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

For now, i will just create a new vm, but it would be nice to see this fixed.