Problem with Retrieve SSH client IP

[fullyint]

I only recall seeing that error when someone was using an old version of Trellis (without this task; is that task running for you?) and provisioning a fresh Ubuntu 16.04, but typically sooner than the task where you encounter the error.

As a workaround, try the steps here:

No response from Ipify

Trellis runs the ipify_facts module with connection: local so that it retrieves your local machine’s public IP (not your server’s), which it adds to the ip_whitelist variable used with the ferm firewall rules and fail2ban rules to make sure your machine doesn’t get blocked. Connection issues like this are usually just temporary, so you could try again later. If you need the failed connection/task to stop blocking right now, you could add a new variable ssh_client_ip_lookup: false in group_va…