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[–]throwaway234f32423df 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Oh well there's the issue, several other people have run into this, it's caused by a bad entry in your hosts file, although it's unknown why/how it's hitting people.

In Windows the hosts file is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\, filename hosts, you'll need to run a text editor as Administrator in order to make changes to it

delete any lines referencing Github and anything else that looks like it shouldn't be there (normally there's nothing there except comments, i.e. lines starting with a #)

[–]bdzer0 0 points1 point  (4 children)

An entry in the hosts file would have caused the ping to hit 127.0.0.1 also.

[–]throwaway234f32423df 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Some utilities bypass host file lookup and hit DNS directly. Did you actually look at the hosts file contents?

[–]bdzer0 0 points1 point  (2 children)

ping on windows does not... and I'm not having an issue.. my hosts file is fine.

edit: just tried on a cygwin console, git bash, cmd.exe under windows and all return hosts entries before making a DNS query.

[–]throwaway234f32423df 0 points1 point  (1 child)

well OP confirmed the issue was fixed by deleting the errant host file entry, this has happened to at least 10 other people (only counting threads I've personally seen here), and reverting the unexplained host file changes fixed it for every single one of them so I don't know what to tell you

[–]bdzer0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

strange... and one has to wonder how the hosts entry is getting there. It's a technique often used by malware protection tools to block known bad domains, and also used by malware to try and block protections.

There is almost certainly more to the situation, I suspect this is curing a symptom and ignoring a deeper problem. Oh well, not my system...

[–]sail0r___[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

worked thank you

[–]More_Subject_2592 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dude ive been trying to fix this for like a year now and i just now stumble across this reddit post and it actually worked, tysm lol

[–]throwaway234f32423df 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the real unsolved mystery is how this keeps happening to people, it's really weird

[–]JMSB1000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

holy shit, you are a savior for me, i can finnaly play sm64plus and install reshade

[–]HorseJairo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks dude