Unable to connect to github.com...

[ronaldpabilonia]

Hi, trying to use bower install --save Polymer/polymer#^0.5 but I get

Additional error details: fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.252.129]: errno=No such file or directory

I was just following the instruction on www.polymer-project.org and I also have a bower.json file already. Am I doing something wrong? Please help. Thanks.

[arthurevans]

Just tried running the command locally and it worked for me. The error you report sounds like some kind of connectivity problem with github. If you're behind a proxy, you may get better results by configuring git to use https:// URLs instead of git:// URLs, by running the following command:

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

(Found in this bug thread over here:
DefinitelyTyped/tsd#84)

You don't mention what OS you're on, but there are also some issues reported on Debian Linux and on Windows that came up when I searched for that error (unable to connect to github.com No such file).

[ronaldpabilonia]

Yeah I am on windows. And yeah I'll try first the git config --global url

[ronaldpabilonia]

Oh wow the config worked. Thanks so much! :)

[jandiralceu]

Thanks @arthurevans, it's worked!

[yasirrose]

@arthurevans @ronaldpabilonia @jandiralceu @mbleigh @usergenic I am using mac and tried you connection but it is not working.
This is what I am getting.when i run vagrant provision

"failed": true, "msg": "fatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused", "rc": 11, "stderr": "fatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\n\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection refused\ngithub.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection refused\n\n", "stderr_lines": ["fatal: unable to connect to github.com:", "github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]:

[prasadheeramani]

Finally it works. Because i am behind proxy. So used https: instead of git:

[Siddhant9868]

@arthurevans thanks, It worked

[topdeveloper2210]

Thanks, that's very helpful!
Thanks again.

[GuddyV]

Thanks so much, it worked flawlessly

[maalejahmed55]

Just tried running the command locally and it worked for me. The error you report sounds like some kind of connectivity problem with github. If you're behind a proxy, you may get better results by configuring git to use https:// URLs instead of git:// URLs, by running the following command:

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

(Found in this bug thread over here: DefinitelyTyped/tsd#84)

You don't mention what OS you're on, but there are also some issues reported on Debian Linux and on Windows that came up when I searched for that error (unable to connect to github.com No such file).

thanks bro it worked for me
i had a problem : cant connecte to github while i was trying to install floodlight

[suzukidavid]

You can fix this issue just by deleting some configuration on .gitconfig file.
It is normally located at C:/Users/[Username]/.gitconfig
Remote this and try.
[url "git@github.com"]
insteadOf = https://github.com/:
[url "git://"]
insteadOf = https://
[url "https://"]
insteadOf = git://