Git SSH error Connect to host Bad file number

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I followed the git guide but I have this strange issue when trying to connect to github     ssh -v git github com OpenSSH 4 6p1  OpenSSL 0 9 8e 23 Feb 2007 debug1  Reading configuration data  c Documents and Settings mugues  ssh config debug1  Applying options for github com debug1  Connecting to github com  207 97 227 239  port 22  debug1  connect to address 207 97 227 239 port 22  Attempt to connect timed out without establishing a connection ssh  connect to host github com port 22  Bad file number   This is my config file under  ssh  Host github com     User git     Hostname github com     PreferredAuthentications publickey     IdentityFile  C  Documents and Settings mugues  ssh id rsa      TCPKeepAlive yes     IdentitiesOnly yes   Any idea

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I saw this issue when I access bitbucket in corporate network, while git works fine in home network.

$ git pull
ssh: connect to host bitbucket.org port 22: Bad file number
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I used https protocol to workaround this.

$ git pull https://[email protected]/myaccount/myrepo.git
Password for 'https://[email protected]':

Please use corresponding words to replace "myaccount" and "myrepo".

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In my case simply restarting the WiFi router helped

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Double check that you have published your public keys through your GitHub Administration interface   Then make sure port 22 isn t somehow blocked  as illustrated in this question

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If SSH is blocked over 22  just update your origin to https   git remote set-url origin https   github com ACCOUNT NAME REPO NAME git  verify that changes were made  git remote -v

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What I found is that  this happens when your connection is poor  I had it a few minutes ago when pushing to my repo  it kept failing and a while after that  the connection went down   After it came back up  the push immediately went through   I believe it can be caused by either a drop in connection from either your side or theirs

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I had the problem when I had an open FileZilla-Connection on Windows  Closed FileZilla -  Problem solved

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Creating the config file to use port 443 didn t work for me  Finally I tried to turn off my wifi connection  turn it on again and the problem disappeared  Weird  Silly solution but it may help someone

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On windows I tried to do quit git bash and re-run but didn t work  finally me frustated  did a restart and it worked the next time

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You can also try to   telnet example com 22   to see if you have connectivity to the server  I saw this message and it ended up being the VPN I was on was blocking access  Disconnected from the VPN and I was good to go

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After having this problem myself  I found a solution that works for me   Error message        ssh -v git github com     OpenSSH 5 8p1  OpenSSL 1 0 0d 8 Feb 2011     debug1  Connecting to github com  207 97 227 239  port 22      debug1  connect to address 207 97 227 239 port 22  Connection timed out     ssh  connect to host github com port 22  Connection timed out     ssh  connect to host github com port 22  Bad file number   You will only see the bad file number message when on windows using the MINGGW shell  Linux users will just get Timed out   Problem   SSH is probably blocked on port 22  You can see this by typing       nmap -sS github com -p 22     Starting Nmap 5 35DC1   http   nmap org   at 2011-11-05 10 53 CET     Nmap scan report for github com  207 97 227 239      Host is up  0 10s latency       PORT   STATE    SERVICE     22 tcp    filtered    ssh      Nmap done  1 IP address  1 host up  scanned in 2 63 seconds   As you can see the state is Filtered  which means something is blocking it  You can solve this by performing an SSH to port 443  your firewall   isp will not block this   It is also important that you need to ssh to  ssh github com  instead of github com  Otherwise  you will report to the webserver instead of the ssh server   Below are all the steps needed to solve this problem   Solution    First of all make sure you generated your keys like explained on http   help github com win-set-up-git    create file    ssh config  ssh config file located in your user directory   On windows probably  USERPROFILE   ssh config  Paste the following code in it       Host github com     User git     Hostname ssh github com     PreferredAuthentications publickey     IdentityFile    ssh id rsa     Port 443   Save the file   Perform ssh like usual    ssh -T github com       Enter passphrase for key              you can smile now       Note that I do not have to supply the username or port number

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Maybe your firewall or a blocker application  PeerBlock etc   is blocking your port

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Check your remote with  git remote -v Something like ssh    gituser myhost  git dev git   is wrong because of the triple     slash

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The following solution worked for me when tried to SSH into to AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance from my Windows 7  32 Bit  PC behind corporate firewall setting up Proxy-  Add the following block to C  Users  lt YOUR WINDOWS USER gt   ssh config file-   gt  Host    gt       ProxyCommand  C  Program Files Git mingw32 bin connect exe  -H  lt YOUR PROXY SERVER HOST gt   lt YOUR PROXY SERVER PORT gt   h  p  gt       IdentityFile   lt PATH OF YOUR IDENTITY FILE gt    gt       TCPKeepAlive yes  gt       IdentitiesOnly yes  gt        gt      Host  lt SERVER HOST NAME OR IP YOU WANT TO SSH INTO gt   gt       Port  lt SERVER HOST PORT YOU WANT TO SSH INTO gt   gt       Hostname  lt SERVER HOST NAME OR IP YOU WANT TO SSH INTO gt    You will need to add similar configuration per host that you want to SSH into

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Try to quit the git bash instance through which you made the setup and try reopening  It eventually worked for me

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This is the simple solution for saving some typing you can use the following steps in git bash easily     1  create the remote repository  git remote add origin https    your username   your password  github com  your username  repo git   Note  If your password contains     sign use   40  instead of that   2  Then do anything you want with the remote repository  ex - git push origin master

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The key information is written in  Sam s answer but not really salient  so let s make it clear     Bad file number  is not informative  it s only a sign of running git s ssh on Windows   The line which appears even without -v switch   ssh  connect to host  some host or IP address  port 22  Bad file number   is actually irrelevant   If you focus on it you ll waste your time as it is not a hint about what the actual problem is  just an effect of running git s ssh on Windows   It s not even a sign that the git or ssh install or configuration is wrong   Really  ignore it   The very same command on Linux produced instead this message for me  which gave an actual hint about the problem   ssh  connect to host  some host or IP address  port 22  Connection timed out   Actual solution  ignore  bad file number  and get more information  Focus on lines being added with -v on command line  In my case it was   debug1  connect to address  some host or IP address  port 22  Attempt to connect timed out without establishing a connection   My problem was a typo in the IP address  but yours may be different   Is this question about  bad file number   or about the many reasons why a connection could time out    If someone can prove that  bad file number  only appears when the actual reason is  connection time out  then it makes some sense to address why connection could time out   Until that   bad file number  is only a generic error message and this question is fully answered by saying  ignore it and look for other error messages      EDIT  Qwertie mentioned that the error message is indeed generic  as it can happen on  Connection refused  also  This confirms the analysis   Please don t clutter this question with general hints and answer  they have nothing to do with the actual topic  and title  of this question which is  Git SSH error     Connect to host  Bad file number      If using -v you have more informative message that deserve their own question  then open another question  then you can make a link to it

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In my case the IP address of our git host had changed   Simply flushing the DNS cache fixed the problem

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This worked for me   ssh -v git github com -p 443

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I just had the same problem and tried every solution that I could find  but none worked  Eventually  I tried quitting Git Bash and re-opening it  and everything worked perfectly   So  try quitting Git Bash and re-opening it

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