Github unable to access SSL connect error

Question

I have been using git lots for the last few months. git push worked 12 hours ago now all attempts generate errors, with verbose it produces this:

GIT_CURL_V         


        

Answer 1

I was having the same problem on various CentOS 6 VM's and it turned out to be an issue with stale curl and nss libraries (thanks to this thread for pointing me in the right direction: cURL SSL connect error 35 with NSS error -5961).

The fix that worked for me is just:

yum update -y nss curl libcurl