Even if you wrote the code yourself you can come back to it a while later and have a wtf moment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GSV_Sleeper_Service
joined 4 months ago
I tried setting this up a few years ago without success. Prompted by your post I took another look and I think I was trying to serve my key from a mishmash of the direct and advanced URIs (although I don't remember there being an advanced and direct method when I first tried this) and I had a TXT record setup in DNS as well for some reason. Might have been following a draft RFC? Whatever I was trying, it didn't work for me then.
No one I know other than a couple of services I have accounts with use pgp so it is of little use to me right now. But I am glad it is now working and I don't need to rely on any 3rd party keyservers. So thanks for the prompt and the write-up.
You think linux doesn't have a firewall? I'm fairly certain every distribution has one installed and enabled by default.
The real reason linux worked so well in this situation was the local admin rights that came from being a rogue, unmanaged device on the network. I'm sure they could have made windows work if all the group policies weren't being enforced.