mvn package error: unknown host repo.maven.apache.org

I'm using intelliJ IDEA 14.1.4 and when

mvn package

is entered I get this message

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building test1 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 21.344s
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Dec 12 15:00:57 IST 2015
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/88M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.3 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.3: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.3 from/to central (): repo.maven.apache.org: Name or service not known: Unknown host repo.maven.apache.org: Name or service not known -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] 

I've set the proxy in ~/.m2/setting.xml but, still get this error. Helps please..

1 Answer

Try the below command from the path where your pom.xml is present,

$ git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:/

it worked for me.