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I'm in China and cannot pull, clone or push to github. I'm using a vpn but it still doesn't work. I'm working home from my computer, so it can't be my firewall. I also tried to turn it of briefly, but it didn't change anything.

fatal: unable to access '': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Timed out.

I've tried setting and unsetting proxies, without success. I've googled for at least a couple of hours, but without prevail.

Any help would be very appreciated and valuable to me.

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    And through SSH? Commented Feb 4, 2020 at 5:24
  • Run DNS through VPN too. Use public DNS like OpenDNS, Google DNS, etc. Commented Feb 4, 2020 at 11:57
  • Thanks, I will give it a try and rapport back Commented Feb 5, 2020 at 5:04
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    I know this question has been left for a bit, but have you checked to see if port 443 is available, or exists? Commented Feb 12, 2020 at 1:14
  • That was the answer. For some reason my port 443 is closed. Will have to open it. Thanks for the help! Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 13:16

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Reset to default
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If your git was already set to something and you only copied that folder to some other location, simply run:

git config --global http.proxy ""

And you can pull again :)

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Google "is github accessible in china" - Interesting results come up.
I did as you said. Now I get this message instead "fatal: unable to access '': Could not resolve host: github.com." But I think it might be the great firewall that hinders it...
You are saying "Google and Github are not accessible from china"?
It has been working fine until recently though. I've been living and working here the past few years. Perhaps the blockade just became stronger. Perhaps I should migrate everything to bitbucket or gitlab
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One Google Search came up with interesting results..(Is github accessible in china)

On January 21, 2013, GitHub was blocked in China using DNS hijacking. Confirming the block, a spokesperson for GitHub said: "It does appear that we're at least being partly blocked by the Great Firewall of China".

I hope this clears things up for you :)

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I read that too. But I also read this: The block was lifted on January 23, 2013 after an online protest on Sina Weibo.[8]
Is it possible that China put the firewall back up? (I don't know what else could be causing this.)
Yes, it is indeed very possible

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