git error :Unable to look up xyz.com (port <none>) (Servname not supported for ai_socktype)

Question

I'm getting this error message from git.What's this mean ? How to fix?

Answer 1

I don't think this is related to Git, but rather linked to the server on which Git is running.

See this article

what could this mean: “Servname not supported for ai_socktype“.
After some other tries I have finally seen the problem… NTP ports were not defined in /etc/services and this was the root of the error.
The system didn’t know how to make ntp connections without that. So I’ve added the following lines to /etc/services

ntp             123/tcp
ntp             123/udp

and after this ntpdate started working as expected…

Check with your administrator before attempting any modification of those files (unless this is your personal server)

Answer 2

I do not think ntp issue has a bearing to the git error; at least in my case.

Here is my case:

xxxx@cerberus:~/src$ git clone git://http://cgit.sukimashita.com/sbmanager.git/tree sbmanager
Cloning into sbmanager...
fatal: Unable to look up http (port <none>) (Servname not supported for ai_socktype)

The problem was my syntax for git.

Here is my solution:

xxxx@cerberus:~/src$ git clone git://git.sukimashita.com/sbmanager.git sbmanager
Cloning into sbmanager...
remote: Counting objects: 764, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (643/643), done.
remote: Total 764 (delta 449), reused 257 (delta 118)
Receiving objects: 100% (764/764), 291.75 KiB | 261 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (449/449), done.

I think the solution is to check the syntax for git.