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

2016-04-14 Thread Colin Percival
On 04/14/16 07:43, John Noll wrote: > I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen: > > % sudo ./tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --user myn...@gmail.com > --machine mybox > [sudo] password for mel: > Enter tarsnap account password: > tarsnap-keygen: Connection lost,

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
Greetings: I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen: % sudo ./tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --user myn...@gmail.com --machine mybox [sudo] password for mel: Enter tarsnap account password: tarsnap-keygen: Connection lost, waiting 1 seconds before reconnecting