abort: error: nodename nor servname provided, or not known error

Bhawani picture Bhawani · Aug 10, 2009 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

can anyone help ?? i am getting this error while connecting..

abort: error: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

please help me out.

Actually I want to get the source of coreplot from a repository I am executing this command in the terminal

"hg clone core-plot.googlecode.com/hg core-plot "

and i get the error ...

"abort: error: nodename nor servname provided or not known,"

Can any1 help me?

Answer

ZaMoose picture ZaMoose · Aug 4, 2010

Check your proxy settings. I've had issues with having my http_proxy/https_proxy environment variables set to a corporate setting while off-corp-LAN and have seen similar responses.