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SivaDotRender
SivaDotRender

Reputation: 1651

SVN unable to connect to host after proxy setup

I am trying to checkout a svn repo on a VM (which I am SSHed into). All ports to the external net are blocked by a firewall, so all HTTP traffic should be routed through this proxy: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3128. I SVN to use this proxy by adding the following lines to: /etc/subversion/servers

[global]
http-proxy-host = http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
http-proxy-port = 3128

I am still unable to checkout SVN repos. For example, when I try to checkout the freeBSD repo using the following command: 

svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sbin/routed

I get the following error: 

svn: E000101: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/svin/routedsvn'
svn: E000101: Can't connect to host 'svn.freebsd.org': Network is unreachable

I even tried:

svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sbin/routed

Can anyone point me towards what could be wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1882

Answers (1)

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30662

Proxy has to be set to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx without specifying any protocol. Remove http:// from the proxy address.

However, http-proxy-host has nothing to do with access via svn:// access scheme. svn:// (svnserve) is a protocol specific to Subversion. http-proxy-host works for HTTP(S) connections only.

So you have two options:

  • Use HTTP(S) URL to the repository. E.g. like this http://svn.freebsd.org/base/.
  • Configure a tunnel as described here and in related threads.

Upvotes: 1

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