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@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@
# support).
#
# Example HKP keyserver:
-# x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
+# hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
#
# Example email keyserver:
#
# Example LDAP keyservers:
# ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
#
# Regular URL syntax applies, and you can set an alternate port
# through the usual method:
-# x-hkp://keyserver.example.net:22742
+# hkp://keyserver.example.net:22742
#
# If you have problems connecting to a HKP server through a buggy http
# proxy, you can use keyserver option broken-http-proxy (see below),
@@ -109,10 +109,14 @@
# regarding proxies (keyserver option honor-http-proxy)
#
# Most users just set the name and type of their preferred keyserver.
-# Most servers do synchronize with each other and DNS round-robin may
-# give you a quasi-random server each time.
-
-#keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
+# Note that most servers (with the notable exception of
+# ldap://keyserver.pgp.com) synchronize changes with each other. Note
+# also that a single server name may actually point to multiple
+# servers via DNS round-robin. hkp://subkeys.pgp.net is an example of
+# such a "server", which spreads the load over a number of physical
+# servers.
+
+keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
#keyserver mailto:[email protected]
#keyserver ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370
#keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com