Network timeouts when interacting with GitHub Enterprise Server

[jonathonlacher]

Describe the bug

I often see errors like this when interacting with GitHub Enterprise Server:

I attempted to create the pull request again, but the same network timeout issue occurred. Unfortunately, I couldn't complete the action programmatically.

And it often does work successfully on retry (clicking the retry button).

I've tried restarting the server through the UI, this doesn't seem to have much bearing on success.

Outside of MCP, getting errors while interacting with the GHES server isn't typical.

I'm also running the container with Colima (not Docker Desktop).

Perhaps exposing more details about the error could be helpful as well.

Affected version

Please run docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server ./github-mcp-server --version and paste the output below

> docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server ./github-mcp-server --version
server version v0.1.1 (7ab5d968e065f13a660cd123c2c5d0be6d8b6dbd) 2025-04-07T16:05:10Z

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Start Agentic chat
2. Ask to do something that interacts with one of the tools
3. Get a network timeout error like indicated above
4. Often does work correctly on retry, but sometimes not