Re: Git fetch/pull stopped working

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 02:10:18AM +0200, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> I can reproduce this issue. It happens somewhere between my phone jack
> and rackspace.
> 
> I can perform 'git fetch' on other hosts and ssh -T git@github.com
> works fine. However, trying to fetch from github gives me an error.
> 
> Not only this, but trying to browse to github.com or rubygems.org,
> both of which seem to be hosted on the same datacentre gives me
> timeouts or takes really long to answer. Routing traffic through my
> server in the next country over makes it work, as does fetching from
> that host.

I can't reproduce this behavior at all. Neither from rackspace's DFW
data center, nor from the IAD one (the latter is where github.com is
located).

> Yeah... It looks like the Internet is being silly. So much for routing
> around damage. What I'm not sure is how this would also affect AWS;
> maybe the Irish one?

If it was a routing issue, I wonder if it has gone away. Are you still
seeing problems?

If there's further discussion, we should probably take it off the git
list. Routing issues are definitely not a git-core problem. :)

-Peff