diff --git a/utils/lxc/Makefile b/utils/lxc/Makefile
index 7cdc8abe2b..2713eaf267 100644
--- a/utils/lxc/Makefile
+++ b/utils/lxc/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=lxc
 PKG_VERSION:=4.0.5
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_RELEASE:=3
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/lxc/
diff --git a/utils/lxc/patches/040-gpg.patch b/utils/lxc/patches/040-gpg.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a08c8b8b09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/lxc/patches/040-gpg.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 3efa0cf3455cbe330b4e79a647a57ad8e9cf3476 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Graber?= <stgraber@ubuntu.com>
+Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:42:52 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] lxc-download: Switch GPG server
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>
+---
+ templates/lxc-download.in | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/templates/lxc-download.in
++++ b/templates/lxc-download.in
+@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ LXC_PATH=
+ LXC_ROOTFS=
+ 
+ if [ -z "${DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER:-}" ]; then
+-  DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER="hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net"
++  DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER="hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com"
+ 
+   # Deal with GPG over http proxy
+   if [ -n "${http_proxy:-}" ]; then
+-    DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER="hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80"
++    DOWNLOAD_KEYSERVER="hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80"
+     DOWNLOAD_GPG_PROXY="--keyserver-options http-proxy=\"${http_proxy}\""
+   fi
+ fi