How can I git clone without a proxy?

I am on Ubuntu and am trying to git clone some packages off arago-project.org However, I do not seem to be able to do this. My laptop is connected via WiFi to my home wireless router.

carson@carson-laptop:~/oe$ git clone git://arago-project.org/git/arago.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/carson/oe/arago/.git/

It just does nothing after that...

Some googling reveals that some people use a proxy. How开发者_开发技巧ever, is this really necessary? And if so, what proxy do I use in that case?

UPDATE: waited for longer and got this error

carson@carson-laptop:~/oe$ git clone git://arago-project.org/git/arago.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/carson/oe/arago/.git/
2011/01/09 10:00:14 socat[4024] E connect(3, AF=2 150.229.98.44:8080, 16): Connection timed out
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
carson@carson-laptop:~/oe$ 

You are trying to clone using the git protocol. The git protocol runs on TCP port 9418 by default, and you are cloning arago-project.org. Therefore, we'd expect to see a connection to IP address 184.73.161.183 on port 9418.

However, your error message reports an error to 150.229.12.128 port 8080. This is likely some sort of proxy running on www.csiro.au. You'll have to investigate things on your end to see if you can avoid that proxy.

If you can't, perhaps you can clone over HTTP. It's not as efficient as the git protocol, but if should get the job done. Just run: git clone http://arago-project.org/git/arago.git

I was able to clone with no issue, under the same wifi situation.
What version of Git are you using?

Waffles:~ clint$ git --version
git version 1.7.3.4

Waffles:~ clint$ git clone git://arago-project.org/git/arago.git
Cloning into arago...
remote: Counting objects: 10763, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8624/8624), done.
remote: Total 10763 (delta 7052), reused 3038 (delta 1808)
Receiving objects: 100% (10763/10763), 7.83 MiB | 740 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7052/7052), done.

http://arago-project.org/wiki/index.php/Proxy_Settings This wiki page for the Arago project mentions setting up proxy settings, did you try this?