title: Syncing with github
body: <p>This is for the nth time that I'm trying to connect to my github account and its becoming increasingly frustrating at my failure to do this. </p>
  
  <p>I followed this tutorial step by step <a href="http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/" rel="noreferrer">Github setup on windows</a> but I failed at step 5, i.e. Test everything out.</p>
  
  <pre><code>ssh git@github.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gives me this</p>
  
  <pre><code>ssh: github.com: no address associated with name
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas what is wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using the default git installation which comes with railsinstaller on Windows XP (behind a proxy)</p>