diff --git a/testssl.sh b/testssl.sh
index 57a106e..23e5f34 100755
--- a/testssl.sh
+++ b/testssl.sh
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ ALL_CLIENTS=${ALL_CLIENTS:-false}       # do you want to run all client simulati
 # tuning vars which cannot be set by a cmd line switch
 EXPERIMENTAL=${EXPERIMENTAL:-false}
 HEADER_MAXSLEEP=${HEADER_MAXSLEEP:-5}   # we wait this long before killing the process to retrieve a service banner / http header
-MAX_SOCKET_FAIL=${MAX_SOCKET_FAIL:-2}   # we allow this many failures for tcp sockets before we terminate
+MAX_SOCKET_FAIL=${MAX_SOCKET_FAIL:-2}   # If this many failures for TCP socket conencts are reached we terminate
 MAX_WAITSOCK=${MAX_WAITSOCK:-10}        # waiting at max 10 seconds for socket reply. There shouldn't be any reason to change this.
 CCS_MAX_WAITSOCK=${CCS_MAX_WAITSOCK:-5} # for the two CCS payload (each). There shouldn't be any reason to change this.
 HEARTBLEED_MAX_WAITSOCK=${HEARTBLEED_MAX_WAITSOCK:-8}      # for the heartbleed payload. There shouldn't be any reason to change this.
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ fileout_json_print_parameter() {
 
 fileout_json_finding() {
      local target
-     local finding="$3"            # FIXME: dealing with locals and globals in fileout()
+     local finding="$3"
      local cve="$4"
      local cwe="$5"
      local hint="$6"
@@ -8347,8 +8347,9 @@ fd_socket() {
      elif ! exec 5<>/dev/tcp/$nodeip/$PORT; then  #  2>/dev/null would remove an error message, but disables debugging
           ((NR_SOCKET_FAIL++))
           if [[ $NR_SOCKET_FAIL -ge $MAX_SOCKET_FAIL ]]; then
+               outln
                [[ $MAX_SOCKET_FAIL -eq 1 ]] && fatal "TCP connect problem" -2
-               fatal "repeated TCP connect problems, doesn't make sense to continue" -2
+               fatal "repeated TCP connect problems, giving up.." -2
           fi
           outln
           pr_warning "Unable to open a socket to $NODEIP:$PORT. "