trying to clone a repository via the command line, but getting a timeout message....

[pietershock]

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Good day - I am trying clone a repo using the command line, but keep on getting this response:

git clone git://github.com/Xilinx/qemu-devicetrees.git

Cloning into 'qemu-devicetrees'...
fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
github.com[0: 20.87.245.0]: errno=Connection timed out

// I can ping and resolve the github.com domain:

ping github.com
PING github.com (140.82.121.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lb-140-82-121-4-fra.github.com (140.82.121.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=418 ms
64 bytes from lb-140-82-121-4-fra.github.com (140.82.121.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=317 ms
64 bytes from lb-140-82-121-4-fra.github.com (140.82.121.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=182 ms

any ideas? thank you!

[glyndavidson]

This usually happens because of the protocol you’re using rather than DNS or basic connectivity.

You’re cloning with:
git clone git://github.com/Xilinx/qemu-devicetrees.git

The git:// protocol (port 9418) is often blocked by firewalls/proxies, and GitHub have effectively moved everyone towards HTTPS/SSH instead. That’s why you can still ping github.com (ICMP is allowed), but the clone over git:// times out.

Try cloning over HTTPS instead:
git clone https://github.com/Xilinx/qemu-devicetrees.git

If that works, you can tell Git to always use HTTPS instead of git:// for GitHub:
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git://github.com/

If you have SSH keys set up, you can also use:
git clone [email protected]:Xilinx/qemu-devicetrees.git