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

[jerry <jerry@tr2.com>]

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 <john@commonpeople.uk> 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 paranoid' who is using tarsnap for a good reason.

*** You could use firewall logging.  My firewall is a monstrous shell 
script
that logs every single rejected or dropped packet.  When something 
doesn't
work, I just inspect the logs.  Syslog has logic to reject repeated log
entries, which keeps the logs to a sane size.

                       - Jerry Kaidor



> > I most seriously advise against doing this as it could set you back to
> > the safety level of Dropbox and the likes.
> > My advise would be to read the firewall rules and check that way
> > whether or not the tarsnap servers are blocked or not.
> >
> > joe
>
> You did selectively trim out the bit of code where I turned the
> firewall back on within a second of turning it off, Joe. What you
> write may well be right as regards paranoia, but I didn't suggest
> leaving the firewall off. It would be off for the duration of the
> keygen process and no longer, and it would immediately and
> unambiguously show whether it was the firewall on the server which was
> preventing the connection.
>
> John.