diff --git a/testssl.sh b/testssl.sh
index 038fd72..9a6a339 100755
--- a/testssl.sh
+++ b/testssl.sh
@@ -16907,25 +16907,11 @@ run_ccs_injection(){
      return $ret
 }
 
-sub_session_ticket_tls() {
-     local tls_proto="$1"
-     local sessticket_tls=""
-     #FIXME: we likely have done this already before (either @ run_server_defaults() or at least the output
-     #       from a previous handshake) --> would save 1x connect. We have TLS_TICKET but not yet the ticket itself #FIXME
-     #ATTENTION: we DO NOT use SNI here as we assume ticketbleed is a vulnerability of the TLS stack. If we'd do SNI here, we'd also need
-     #           it in the ClientHello of run_ticketbleed() otherwise the ticket will be different and the whole thing won't work!
-     #
-     sessticket_tls="$($OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$BUGS $tls_proto $PROXY $SNI -connect $NODEIP:$PORT") </dev/null 2>$ERRFILE | awk '/TLS session ticket:/,/^$/' | awk '!/TLS session ticket/')"
-     sessticket_tls="$(sed -e 's/^.* - /x/g' -e 's/  .*$//g' <<< "$sessticket_tls" | tr '\n' ',')"
-     sed -e 's/ /,x/g' -e 's/-/,x/g' <<< "$sessticket_tls"
-
-}
-
 
 # see https://blog.filippo.io/finding-ticketbleed/ |  https://filippo.io/ticketbleed/
 run_ticketbleed() {
      local tls_hexcode tls_proto=""
-     local session_tckt_tls=""
+     local sessticket_tls="" session_tckt_tls=""
      local -i len_ch=300                            # fixed len of prepared clienthello below
      local sid="x00,x0B,xAD,xC0,xDE,x00,"           # some arbitrary bytes
      local len_sid="$(( ${#sid} / 4))"
@@ -16961,17 +16947,23 @@ run_ticketbleed() {
           return 0
      fi
 
-     if [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol tls1) ]]; then
-          tls_hexcode="x03, x01"; tls_proto="-tls1"
+     if [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol tls1_2) ]]; then
+          tls_hexcode="x03, x03"; tls_proto="-tls1_2"
      elif [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol tls1_1) ]]; then
           tls_hexcode="x03, x02"; tls_proto="-tls1_1"
-     elif [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol tls1_2) ]]; then
-          tls_hexcode="x03, x03"; tls_proto="-tls1_2"
+     elif [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol tls1) ]]; then
+          tls_hexcode="x03, x01"; tls_proto="-tls1"
      elif [[ 0 -eq $(has_server_protocol ssl3) ]]; then
           tls_hexcode="x03, x00"; tls_proto="-ssl3"
      else # no protocol for some reason defined, determine TLS versions offered with a new handshake
           "$HAS_TLS13" && tls_proto="-no_tls1_3"
           $OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$STARTTLS $BUGS $tls_proto -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY") >$TMPFILE 2>$ERRFILE </dev/null
+          sclient_connect_successful $? "$TMPFILE"
+          if [$? -ne 0 ]]; then
+               prln_warning "Cannot test for ticketbleed. Your OpenSSL cannot connect to $NODEIP:$PORT"
+               fileout "$jsonID" "WARN" "Cannot test for ticketbleed. Your OpenSSL cannot connect to $NODEIP:$PORT."
+               return 1
+          fi
           case "$(get_protocol $TMPFILE)" in
                *1.2)  tls_hexcode="x03, x03"; tls_proto="-tls1_2" ; add_proto_offered tls1_2 yes ;;
                *1.1)  tls_hexcode="x03, x02"; tls_proto="-tls1_1" ; add_proto_offered tls1_1 yes ;;
@@ -16979,9 +16971,28 @@ run_ticketbleed() {
                SSLv3) tls_hexcode="x03, x00"; tls_proto="-ssl3" ; add_proto_offered ssl3 yes ;;
           esac
      fi
+     if ! sclient_supported "$tls_proto"; then
+          prln_local_problem "Cannot test for ticketbleed. $OPENSSL doesn't support \"s_client $tls_proto\"."
+          fileout "$jsonID" "WARN" "Cannot test for ticketbleed. $OPENSSL doesn't support \"s_client $tls_proto\"."
+          return 1
+     fi
      debugme echo "using protocol $tls_hexcode"
 
-     session_tckt_tls="$(sub_session_ticket_tls "$tls_proto")"
+     #FIXME: we likely have done this already before (either @ run_server_defaults() or at least the output
+     #       from a previous handshake) --> would save 1x connect. We have TLS_TICKET but not yet the ticket itself #FIXME
+     #ATTENTION: we DO NOT use SNI here as we assume ticketbleed is a vulnerability of the TLS stack. If we'd do SNI here, we'd also need
+     #           it in the ClientHello of run_ticketbleed() otherwise the ticket will be different and the whole thing won't work!
+     #
+     $OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$BUGS $tls_proto $PROXY $SNI -connect $NODEIP:$PORT") </dev/null >$TMPFILE 2>$ERRFILE
+     sclient_connect_successful $? "$TMPFILE"
+     if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+          prln_warning "$OPENSSL unable to connect to $NODEIP:$PORT when testing for ticketbleed."
+          fileout "$jsonID" "WARN" "$OPENSSL unable to connect to $NODEIP:$PORT when testing for ticketbleed."
+          return 1
+     fi
+     sessticket_tls="$(awk '/TLS session ticket:/,/^$/' "$TMPFILE" | awk '!/TLS session ticket/')"
+     sessticket_tls="$(sed -e 's/^.* - /x/g' -e 's/  .*$//g' <<< "$sessticket_tls" | tr '\n' ',')"
+     session_tckt_tls="$(sed -e 's/ /,x/g' -e 's/-/,x/g' <<< "$sessticket_tls")"
      if [[ "$session_tckt_tls" == "," ]]; then
           pr_svrty_best "not vulnerable (OK)"
           outln ", no session tickets"