{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bbatsov/prelude/issues/870","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bbatsov/prelude/issues/870/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bbatsov/prelude/issues/870/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bbatsov/prelude/issues/870/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/issues/870","id":93123984,"number":870,"title":"fresh installation of prelude on 24.5 stuck on contacting host: melpa.org:80","user":{"login":"mage666","id":1426112,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1426112?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666","html_url":"https://github.com/mage666","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mage666/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-07-05T16:22:25Z","updated_at":"2015-07-05T16:22:25Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi, i just did a fresh install of emacs 24.5 from homebrew and was trying to setup prelude.\r\non my first run it got past contacting elpa, but stayed stuck on contacting host: melpa.org:80\r\n\r\nWaited for 10 minutes and nothing happened.\r\nI'm able to ping the url through terminal so host is definitely reachable.\r\n![screen shot 2015-07-05 at 9 51 53 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1426112/8512431/1b01a038-2360-11e5-8042-1db7d7085546.png)\r\n"}}