Ask HN: Temporary workarounds while GitHub is offline?

by sam1r on 10/21/2016, 4:41 PM with 5 comments

Assuming you work in an office where tools such as Github are actively used

  • by znpy on 10/21/2016, 4:49 PM

    github.com is being served to me, but without a css (wow, github is now a motherfuing website!)

    So i can't reach the cdn...

        znpy@durendall:~$ dig @8.8.4.4 assets-cdn.github.com
    
    ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.4.4 assets-cdn.github.com
    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 56702
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
    
    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;assets-cdn.github.com.		IN	A
    
    ;; Query time: 29 msec
    ;; SERVER: 8.8.4.4#53(8.8.4.4)
    ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 18:46:54 CEST 2016
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 50
    So no A record... I guess.

  • by eontool on 10/21/2016, 4:49 PM

    Gitlab or Bitbucket. You could install Gitlab locally and use that in case of an outage. In my case I just push to two of them.

  • by savethefuture on 10/21/2016, 4:43 PM

    Gitlab.com, I completely switched over an no longer use github.

  • by pegler on 10/21/2016, 5:02 PM

    add the following to your /etc/hosts file:

      192.30.253.113  github.com
  23.21.94.152    status.github.com
  192.30.253.113  *.github.com