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

Question

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 1

Try

hg clone https://core-plot.googlecode.com/hg/ core-plot

Note that the https:// is required.

Answer 2

While it's not 100% related (as I think the original issue was a missing "https://") I wanted to post my problem for SO google-juice.

I was having the same error message when cloning from bitbucket.org; I had missed adding @ to the url:

hg clone https://<my_username>@bitbucket.org/<someone>/<project>/

Answer 3

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.