Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-15 Thread Dr Know
tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com Thanks everyone for your prompt and very helpful suggestions. I was able to identify the issue, and have now successfully generated a key. For the benefit of someone who experiences the same problem in the future and stumbles on this thread, here is what I did: 1. Ping

Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-15 Thread jerry
On 04/15/2016 06:02, John wrote: On 04/15/2016 01:43 PM, tarsnap wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:23:06 +0100 John wrote: 1. You could test whether your firewall is the issue by disabling it entirely, That is a bad advise in general, and a very bad advise for a 'truly

Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-15 Thread tarsnap
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:23:06 +0100 John wrote: > On 04/14/2016 03:43 PM, John Noll wrote: > > Greetings: > > I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen: > > > A google search came up with one suggestion that port 9279 needs to > > be opened for outgoing

Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-14 Thread Colin Percival
ygen: Connection lost, waiting 1 seconds before reconnecting > tarsnap-keygen: Connection lost, waiting 2 seconds before reconnecting > tarsnap-keygen: Too many network failures > tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server > > [...] I'm guessing there's something > wrong wit

Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-14 Thread John
On 04/14/2016 03:43 PM, John Noll wrote: Greetings: I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen: A google search came up with one suggestion that port 9279 needs to be opened for outgoing traffic, so I tried using ufw to achieve this: 1. You could test whether your firewall

tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-14 Thread John Noll
tarsnap-keygen: Connection lost, waiting 2 seconds before reconnecting tarsnap-keygen: Too many network failures tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server I am trying this on Ubuntu 14.04.4 using tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.37. A google search came up with one suggestion that port 9279 needs to be opened