<div dir="ltr">Hi, I just resolved this issue. This issue was there because ssh was unable to route to the internet because of the proxy i work behind. The following <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19161960/connect-with-ssh-through-a-proxy">thread</a> helped. <div>and adding <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">ProxyCommand nc -X connect -x proxyhost:proxyport %h %p</blockquote> in the ssh config file resolved this issue. Thanks for your help. :) </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Eike Rathke <<a href="mailto:erack@redhat.com" target="_blank">erack@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Aditya, On Tuesday, 2017-03-14 20:54:04 +0530, Aditya Dewan wrote: > Please let me know what i am doing wrong, and how i can rectify it. Probably nothing, your config looks good but > > ssh: Could not resolve hostname <a href="http://gerrit.libreoffice.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gerrit.libreoffice.org</a>: Temporary failure > > in name resolution indicates it's rather a DNS problem and to try again later. Or you have a more severe problem routing ssh to the Internet.. You could try the simple command ssh <a href="http://gerrit.libreoffice.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gerrit.libreoffice.org</a> which if successful should give some kind of welcome screen and that shells are disabled. Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GPG key "ID" 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Better use 64-bit 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A here is why: <a href="https://evil32.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://evil32.com/</a> Care about Free Software, support the FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/support/?erack" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/support/?erack</a> </blockquote></div> </div>