# Bootstrap Failure to connect to GitHub
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 27, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871 "2015-03-27T10:38:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@AlexisWiiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexisWiiu)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871/1 "2015-03-27T10:38:20Z")
Hello.
I’ve been using Discourse for a good 6 months without any flaws. However, when attempting to restart it today I ran into an error:
> root@fortcraft:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild app
> Ensuring discourse docker is up to date
> Fetching origin
> fatal: unable to access ‘[GitHub - discourse/discourse\_docker: A Docker image for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git/)’: Failed to connect to [github.com](http://github.com) port 443: Connection timed out
> error: Could not fetch origin
> Discourse Docker is up-to-date
> Stopping old container
- /usr/bin/docker stop -t 10 app
app
cd /pups && git pull && /pups/bin/pups --stdin
error: RPC failed; result=7, HTTP code = 0
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
837f29d8b58a80400a9f6b8a45ebf3b1f5993fab16a50c2f6109ed88771a5b98
FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP
Not sure what’s going on. I’ve rebooted it several times before without this issue occurring. I have also looked into DNS issues as those were the most relevant results on Google, but these fixes seem to have no effect.
> Docker Upstart and SysVinit configuration file
> Customize location of Docker binary (especially for development testing).
> DOCKER=“/usr/local/bin/docker”
> Use DOCKER\_OPTS to modify the daemon startup options.
> DOCKER\_OPTS=“–dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4”
> If you need Docker to use an HTTP proxy, it can also be specified here.
> export http\_proxy=“[http://127.0.0.1:3128/](http://127.0.0.1:3128/)”
> This is also a handy place to tweak where Docker’s temporary files go.
> export TMPDIR=“/mnt/bigdrive/docker-tmp”
This is the /etc/default/docker file that was referred to in other posts.
All help is appreciated, I currently can’t start the app.
**Edit:** After the 13th attempt it seems to be working again. Any idea why this happens?
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### Author:  [@RubyRhod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RubyRhod)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871/2 "2015-03-27T11:12:15Z")
see [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-reliance-on-github-can-be-a-liability/26869/4](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-reliance-on-github-can-be-a-liability/26869/4)
It seems github had an attack.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871/3 "2015-03-27T11:32:43Z")
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-failure-to-connect-to-github/26871/4 "2015-03-27T12:26:41Z")
GitHub is currently undergoing a DDoS attack… More information available on [https://status.github.com/messages](https://status.github.com/messages).