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)