Find the best resolve address for Github under the Chinese mainland network [transl.]

Briefly introduce how to modify the host to smoothly/accelerate access to GitHub in mainland China.

The visit status of GitHub in mainland China is Not optimistic, which changes all the time.

The current situation

• Cannot ping github.com
• Cannot use the command line to pull && push normally
• Abnormal access to GitHub assets

Solution

1. Open the IP Address website
2. Check the IP addresses of the three websites:
   • github.com
   • assets-cdn.github.com
   • github.global.ssl.fastly.net
3. Modify the hosts file and add the direct IP of the above three websites
   • Ubuntu(Linux) hosts file address: /etc/hosts
   • Windows hosts file address: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
4. (If it is Windows) Restart or refresh DNS cache

Advantages

No need for software and hardware support such as agents and scientific Internet

Disadvantages

Only corresponding to the current network environment, after the mobile network intervention pointIf it is not easy to useYou need to reconfigure the above process

“Update” For the operator’s floating IP, the best resolution IP may change. If the speed is slow indecisive time, please reconfigure

More

You can use jsDelivr – Open Source CDN to speed up Github file downloads or reduce pollution

Reference

1. IP Address
2. jsDelivr – Open Source CDN