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

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

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 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'm guessing there's something
> wrong with my configuration or environment.  Any suggestions?

Does
# ping v1-0-0-server.tarsnap.com
get any responses?

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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid