Mike C <mike.cohler <at> gmail.com> writes: > I think that this must be where the problem is because port 53291 inbound will > almost certainly be blocked by our institution firewall. This is now resolved - but I don't know why - First I wanted to look up the ip address of the fedora machine si I did: $ host admin.fedoraproject.org admin.fedoraproject.org has address 209.132.176.120 ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 57542, got 53329 ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 7701, got 57542 This was puzzling so... a little while later I did it again and $ host admin.fedoraproject.org admin.fedoraproject.org has address 209.132.176.120 Then I tried to do smoltSendProfile immediately after this, and it worked just fine! Very weird!