diff --git a/authserv/app_common.py b/authserv/app_common.py
index de8a4faae1d0c725eb46149670476188e97880a8..788b3a2fd3f5c94244b73aafb999945603363781 100644
--- a/authserv/app_common.py
+++ b/authserv/app_common.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def _do_auth(mc, username, service, shard, password, otp_token, source_ip,
             bl.auth_failure('u', username)
         if (source_ip
             and not whitelisted(source_ip, current_app.config.get('SOURCE_IP_WHITELIST'))):
-            bl.auth_failure('ip', source_ip)
+            if bl.auth_failure('ip', source_ip):
+                current_app.logger.info('blacklisted IP %s', source_ip)
 
     return (retval, errmsg, out_shard)
diff --git a/authserv/ratelimit.py b/authserv/ratelimit.py
index 43529b61ea8c2c24533456df43768584b06ce4e8..d549ccacf4482ab33402343909d972f9d1a14d46 100644
--- a/authserv/ratelimit.py
+++ b/authserv/ratelimit.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class RateLimit(object):
                 except:
                     result = None
                 if result is None:
-                    # Memcache is failing.
+                    # Memcache is failing. Fail open.
                     return True
         return result <= self.count
 
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ class BlackList(object):
         key = _tostr(self.prefix + key)
         if not self.rl.check(mc, key):
             mc.set(key, 'true', time=self.ttl)
+            return True
+        return False
 
 
 class AuthBlackList(object):
@@ -116,4 +118,4 @@ class AuthBlackList(object):
         if not value:
             return
         key = key_sep.join([tag, value])
-        self.blacklist.incr(self.mc, key)
+        return self.blacklist.incr(self.mc, key)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 79b1ec5488e4f2d06de25c247401c7cf565095fe..6bf1f0fd873dce75a7e2c84a2b346282272bb7c0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+authserv (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed memcache connection errors.
+
+ -- Autistici/Inventati <debian@autistici.org>  Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:16:55 +0100
+
 authserv (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Systemd support.