can't veryify iso - no public key

[xyzen]

I am trying to follow the instrucitons here to verify my downloaded iso.
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/signed- ... nd%20later

when I enter
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9B6375C 0679EE98 892C32F1

i get only one key (892) rather than three returned.

Then when I try and verify I get
gpg: Signature made Sun 31 May 2020 22:24:23 BST
gpg: using RSA key F62EDEAA3AE70A9C99DAC4189B68A1E8B9B6375C
gpg: can't get signature no public key

Presumably because the key request has not returned the B9B key

I've tried making the key request individually in case I have made some sytax error in my gpg command, but I'm not able to retrieve the required key

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9B6375C
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data

help please....!

[xyzen]

update solved by retrieving from a different keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com

[timkb4cq]

Must have been some temporary glitch. I just tested here:

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$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9B6375C 0679EE98 892C32F1
gpg: key 13C74A22892C32F1: public key "Steven Pusser <stevep@mxlinux.org>" imported
gpg: key 70938C780679EE98: public key "Adrian <adrian@mxlinux.org>" imported
gpg: key 9B68A1E8B9B6375C: public key "Dolphin Oracle (mxlinux) <dolphinoracle@gmail.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 3
gpg:               imported: 3

[dolphin_oracle]

the keyservers do go down occasionally.

[fehlix]

In case of network issue with gnupg.net a good alternative is Ubuntu's global keyserver-network to choose instead,
which appers to be fairly reliable.
Here using the long key-ids:

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gpg -v --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0x9B68A1E8B9B6375C 0x70938C780679EE98 0x13C74A22892C32F1
gpg: data source: http://162.213.33.9:11371
gpg: pub  rsa2048/13C74A22892C32F1 2016-10-20  Steven Pusser <stevep@mxlinux.org>
gpg: using pgp trust model
gpg: key 13C74A22892C32F1: public key "Steven Pusser <stevep@mxlinux.org>" imported
gpg: pub  rsa2048/70938C780679EE98 2015-10-29  Adrian <adrian@mxlinux.org>
gpg: key 70938C780679EE98: public key "Adrian <adrian@mxlinux.org>" imported
gpg: pub  rsa4096/9B68A1E8B9B6375C 2017-09-06  Dolphin Oracle (mxlinux) <dolphinoracle@gmail.com>
gpg: key 9B68A1E8B9B6375C: public key "Dolphin Oracle (mxlinux) <dolphinoracle@gmail.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 3
gpg:               imported: 3