Why do I get “unable to connect a socket” when I try to clone via a git URL?

Question

When I try to clone a project from the GitHub, it gives me the following error.

:git clone git://github.com/project.git
github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno         


        

Answer 1

Looks like there is a network problem because the git protocol, by default, uses the port 9418. Looks like your traffic is blocked on that port.