Greetings:
I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen:
% sudo ./tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --user myname@gmail.com --machine mybox
[sudo] password for mel:
Enter tarsnap account password:
tarsnap-keygen: 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 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 for outgoing traffic, so I tried using ufw to achieve this:
% sudo ufw status verbose
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
To Action From
-- ------ ----
22/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
22/udp ALLOW IN Anywhere
22/tcp (v6) ALLOW IN Anywhere (v6)
22/udp (v6) ALLOW IN Anywhere (v6)
9279/udp ALLOW OUT Anywhere
9279/tcp ALLOW OUT Anywhere
9279/udp (v6) ALLOW OUT Anywhere (v6)
9279/tcp (v6) ALLOW OUT Anywhere (v6)
Still no joy. For completeness I also tried tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.31 and the latest version from Github, same results; so I'm guessing there's something wrong with my configuration or environment. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
John Noll
Research Fellow
Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre
University of Limerick, V94 NYD3 Ireland