Syncing with github

Question

This is for the nth time that I'm trying to connect to my github account and its becoming increasingly frustrating at my failure to do this.

I followed this tutorial step by step Github setup on windows but I failed at step 5, i.e. Test everything out.

ssh [email protected]

gives me this

ssh: github.com: no address associated with name

Any ideas what is wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using the default git installation which comes with railsinstaller on Windows XP (behind a proxy)

Answer 1

You need to at least set an HTTP_PROXY variable environment.

set HTTPS_PROXY=http://<login_internet>:<password_internet>@aproxy:aport
set HTTP_PROXY=http://<login_internet>:<password_internet>@aproxy:aport

Or, for bash session:

 export http_proxy=http://<login_internet>:<password_internet>@aproxy:aport
 export https_proxy=http://<login_internet>:<password_internet>@aproxy:aport

Make sure %HOME% (or $HOME) is set to a directory where you did store your .ssh config

Then, for git commands:

git config --system http.sslcainfo \\bin\\curl-ca-bundle.crt
git config --global http.proxy http://<login_internet>:<password_internet>@aproxy:aport
git config --global user.name <short_username>
git config --global user.email <email>
git config --global github.user <github_username>
git config --global github.token <github_token>

Note: for bash session:

git config --system http.sslcainfo /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt

To avoid GitHub asking for your password, create a _netrc file in your HOME (or a .netrc for bash session)

machine github.com
login <login_github>
password <password_github>

---

Update 2012

Note that since git1.7.10 (2012), you can use a credential caching mechanism in order to avoid having to store in plain text your login/password (in a %HOME%/_netrc file).

Answer 2

For those who don't have a proxy enabled and the problem persists, I found the solution! It's a problem with Yosemite. Apple replaced the mDNSResponder by the discoveryd. It's a service and you can unload and load it back:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist

This post explains every detail:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it/

It worked for me!

Answer 3

If you are behind a proxy, are you also behind a firewall? Please try to run ssh -v [email protected] to see what's going on behind the scenes. For my setup, my ~/.ssh/config looks like this:

Host github.com
ProxyCommand /c/windows/connect.exe -H name_of_proxy:8080 %h %p
User git
Port 443
Hostname ssh.github.com
TCPKeepAlive yes
IdentitiesOnly yes

The ProxyCommand is described here.

Answer 4

It seems like you might not have configured your SSH config properly. The reason github.com is unresolvable is because you are probably pointed to a DNS server that doesn't resolve queries outside your domain.

I wrote a whole blog post about this so take a look here: http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-github-through-draconian-proxies.html

Hope this helps.