Re: [boost] [testing][regressions] All my regressions testers failing due to connection errors to GitHub

Subject: Re: [boost] [testing][regressions] All my regressions testers failing due to connection errors to GitHub
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-05-27 10:37:42

On 05/27/18 12:22, Ion Gaztañaga via Boost wrote:
> On 26/05/2018 19:08, Tom Kent via Boost wrote:
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Ion Gaztañaga via Boost <
> 
>> I've been having horrible problems getting all the submodules from 
>> github,
>> that look similar to what you've got going. I'm not sure where the issue
>> is, but I see it across linux and windows boxes at my house, but not 
>> when I
>> run in a cloud data center. I'm thinking it has something to do with my
>> connection (AT&T), but I'm not sure.
> 
> Looks like a GitHub problem, which is the worst case ;-) Maybe it thinks 
> it's a DoS attack or similar with so many connections.
> 
>> I ended up mirroring all the repos to a local machine, with a cron job to
>> update them every 15 min) and then cloning from that for the regression
>> runs. The script I use for that can be found here:
>> https://github.com/teeks99/boost-build/blob/master/Regression/mirror_boostorg.py 
>>
> 
> Looks like I should do something similar. Many thanks for the script.
> 
>> For more backgroun, I was seeing the same failed connections over 
>> https or
>> ssh. I got the script failure when even one of the submoduels failed to
>> update...which I guess is necessary. Now with my script almost all 
>> runs one
>> of the repos fails to fetch, but since they are all just standalone 
>> repos,
>> that failures doesn't cause an overall failure.
> 
> I wonder if other GitHub projects have similar problems, but perhaps not 
> many projects have so many submodules. I'll have a look at your 
> workaround and try to do something, or else I won't be able to run 
> regression tests.

Maybe try writing to GitHub support?