2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 269d246..34ace54 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ lacme (0.7.1) upstream;
    the default section.
  - Raise client timeout from 10 to 30s.
  - Remove dependency on Types::Serialiser.
+ - client: fail immediately when the accountd is unreachable.
 
  -- Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>  Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:23:22 +0100
 
diff --git a/client b/client
index c1066c1..b722d59 100755
--- a/client
+++ b/client
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ sub acme($;$) {
     my $protected = encode_base64url(json()->encode(\%header));
     my $data = $protected .'.'. $payload;
     $S->printflush($data, "\r\n");
-    my $sig = $S->getline();
+    my $sig = $S->getline() // die "ERROR: No response from lacme-accountd\n";
     $sig =~ s/\r\n\z// or die;
     undef $NONCE; # consume the nonce