Any and all "github pages" sites are met with a connection timeout error, is this easily fixable?

[DPowrie]

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Sorry this might seem very amateurish because I'm a user rather than a programmer so apologies if this is blatantly easy to fix.

I logged onto my PC as usual today and booted up my browser (brave if that's relevant) and from there was able to access every website but one. I use "asb player" which is based upon github pages. I thought this might just be an issue on their side specifically as I haven't found this issue anywhere else, but as I looked online for "website down" information - it seemed perfectly normal.

This led me to looking up the original "pages.github" site itself and found I was met with the same infinite loading wheel and ultimately an "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" message.

I've tried doing basic things like DNS flushing and such but to no success, is there anyone who could help out?

[basher]

I have the same issue with 1 of my 2 personal project websites, hosted via Github Pages.
Website times out, but builds are successful.

https://pages.github.com/ also times out.

EDIT:
Bizarrely, my website works OK via 4G on my phone, but not wifi.

[mjones07]

I'm also having similar issues. I'm timing out to every Github Pages site

[Mieekaserra]

I'm on Plusnet ISP - also having the same issue.

[basher]

I'm also on Plusnet. I've reset my router, checked firewall settings, etc.

Strangely, it's just 1 of my Github Pages websites that doesn't work!

[Mieekaserra]

gonna guess we need to phone up and yell at them to reboot their Hamster DNS server again!

[rhystmills]

This has affected some people at our organisation, all on Plusnet or BT - which apparently share Openreach infrastructure.

[Lucasigh]

I am also getting this problem on BT, The github debug tool gives 100% packet loss for me.

[EthanJamesBarron]

Having the same issue here but GitHub's status page isn't reporting anything. I guess they're just not aware

[psaikido]

Hopefully this many comments might alert someone. I'm seeing the same from the UK.

[Sajid78612]

+1 here I have to use VPN to access it again. I tried on my phone with 5g (with EE) which had the same result as on WiFi (BT).

[LiquidZulu]

+1 to @Sajid78612. Seems to be a UK-issue, turned on VPN to Switzerland and I can now access *.github.io

[LiteBrite82]

Hi all!

It looks like Spamhaus blocked all 4 of the IP addresses we use for GitHub pages; our team is working to resolve the issue.

[psaikido]

At https://check.spamhaus.org/results?query=185.199.108.153 spamhaus are saying that I need to get my ISP to ask them to delist those 4 IPs. My sites are down for 2 or 3 days at this point so I need to know what's being done so I can make a decision to move out or not. What's happening?

[Paul-Rettey]

Ditto, we were impacted yesterday (4 June) at about 10am.

[LiteBrite82]

Hi All!
This problem has been resolved; please create a new discussion if you are still having similar problems.

[glncy]

Hi LiteBrite82. I can't access any github pages here in Philippines. Looks like it came back again.

[ThomasProbyn]

For anyone wanting a quick fix whilst this is being solved - it seems only the IPv4 addresses have been blocked (for now) so adding the IPv6 addresses as AAAA records in your domain name's DNS manager appears to bring the site back online for now. It may just be me - I'm a sample size of 1 but it appeared to work!

[psaikido]

Lifesaver!

[Sajid78612]

This worked, thank you!

[Paul-Rettey]

Good morning,

Is there an SLA against this, just to give context our company runs assets for a number of HE partners and this is seriously affecting our users experience so it would be good to get a time estimate against resolution.

[Paul-Rettey]

and for context we cannot ask some of our 5000 users to go away and speak to their ISP to fix an infrastructure problem between github and spamhaus

[ThomasProbyn]

Re the "speak to your ISP" - I believe this message is aimed at the owner of the IP addresses (ie GitHub). As far as I know, GitHub need to remove the Pages site which is distributing malware, then communicate with Spamhaus to sort it out. I don't think this is aimed at users and they won't have to contact their ISP. For reference, see when this happened the last time. In the meantime, if you can, try using the comment I posted earlier about using the IPv6 addresses as that seems to work for now.

[Paul-Rettey]

Thanks Thomas, our Devs are speaking to our IT dept, we're recommending as a temp workaround using a VPN that goes around the UK which fixes it for the time being.

[StuartsProjects]

Having the same problem here too.

Is there a notification on the status page;

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

[stufro]

It issue appears to be resolved for me. Is anyone else still having issues?

[Mieekaserra]

mine is working also - thanks for letting me know :)

[StuartsProjects]

Now working here too.

[secretsixes]

All seems good!

[Paul-Rettey]

Reporting ok here, our users are reporting that it looks to be resolved.

[glncy]

I guess it came back again. Working on my 5g data but not on my Internet WiFi. I'm from Philippines.