Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning

git github git-bash git-clone

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Solution 1

You are probably behind a firewall. Try cloning via https – that has a higher chance of not being blocked:

git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

Solution 2

You can make git replace the protocol for you

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

See more at SO Bower install using only https?

Solution 3

I had the same error because I was using proxy. As the answer is given but in case you are using proxy then please set your proxy first using these commands:

git config --global http.proxy http://proxy_username:proxy_password@proxy_ip:port
git config --global https.proxy https://proxy_username:proxy_password@proxy_ip:port

Solution 4

Open port 9418 on your firewall - it's a custom port that Git uses to communicate on and it's often not open on a corporate or private firewall.

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Mohamed Hussain

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Updated on September 01, 2021

Comments

Mohamed Hussain over 2 years
I am trying to clone the angular-phonecat git repository, but I am getting the following message when I enter the command in my Git Bash:
```
$ git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git  
Cloning into 'angular-phonecat'...  
fatal: unable to connect to github.com:  
github.com[0: 204.232.175.90]: errno=No error
```
- laurent about 11 years
  
  What does ping github.com gives you?
- Mohamed Hussain about 11 years
  
  @Laurent This is the one i got:Pinging github.com [204.232.175.90] with 32 bytes of data:
- Mohamed Hussain about 11 years
  
  @Laurent Pinging github.com [204.232.175.90] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 204.232.175.90: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
- Chronial about 11 years
  
  Are you behind a firewall?
- Chronial about 11 years
  
  Try this command: git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git (using https)
- Mohamed Hussain about 11 years
  
  @Chronical yes i guess.. how to know i am behind the firewall. Please help me to find this.
- Mohamed Hussain about 11 years
  
  @Chronial After using the https:// as u suggested i am able to clone the repository. thanks a lot. You saved my day. put the answer in answer's section.
- Vahap Gencdal about 8 years
  
  You can find answer from this post stackoverflow.com/questions/21789683/how-to-fix-bower-ecmder‌r
- Vahap Gencdal about 8 years
  
  you can find answer from this post stackoverflow.com/questions/21789683/how-to-fix-bower-ecmder‌r
- zypro about 4 years
  
  I'm facing this issue only sometimes but from different servers im cloning on. Sometimes a rerun works, sometimes I have to try it multiple times... So in the same time 2 Server can clone the repo while another can't.
Achyut about 10 years

Can you share something similar for Windows
STEEL almost 10 years

thanks it helped me too. I just updated url line inside .git > config ==> to https ://[email protected]
STEEL almost 10 years

thanks man. i was also hving same issue while work from office internet. which doesnt allow SSH url.
lfender6445 over 9 years

worked for me but had to disable 2 factor auth when cloning from private organization repo
gjw80 over 9 years

Any advice on what to do if HTTPS is getting timed out as well?
androidevil over 9 years

your answer is the same as Chronial, that is the answer checked as right for this question.
Gavin over 8 years

Is there a way to make this work only for domain github.com?
fulvio about 8 years

@STEEL Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I had tried all of those insteadOf commands multiple times with different options and noticed that my ~/.git_config was messed up. I removed all of them, disabled my Mac OSX Firewall and now everything works.
sclausen almost 8 years

Unfortunately this won't work if a dependency has dependencies with "angular/angular-phonecat".
Javier Abrego about 7 years

git config --global url."https://github.com".insteadOf git://github.com
KansaiRobot over 6 years

what proxy_username??
thurt about 6 years

if you are already using https:// and still having issues, try this answer. i just had to add a 9418 port trigger on my router and it worked.
Louis 'LYRO' Dupont about 5 years

To use the default proxy credentials, use the following commands: git config --global http.proxy http://:@proxy_ip:port and git config --global https.proxy https://:@proxy_ip:port
zappy about 5 years

i would mark this as the perfect answer, for those are using repo/yocto way
GDP2 over 4 years

This can also be undone in ~/.gitconfig if you only want to apply it temporarily.
Prometheus over 4 years

The below commands also work for me. git config --global http.proxy proxy_ip:port git config --global https.proxy proxy_ip:port
Amit Singh almost 2 years

Thanks https:// works for me looks like my system firewall blocks git:// scheme