Re: can't do svn status -u from collab.net

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:44:25PM +0200, devik wrote:
[snip]
> >> svn: PROPFIND of
> >> '/repos/svn/!svn/bc/6915/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/perl': Could not
> >> resolve hostname `svn.collab.net': Host not found (http://svn.collab.net)
> >
> > Looks like you have DNS problems.
>
> I have been having the same problem recently, but it depends which
> nameserver I use. The nameserver run by my cable provider has been
> doing that intermittently for some time, the nameserver run by my
> dialup ISP doesn't have the problem.

hmmm... the TTL on the DNS records is quite low.

svn.collab.net. 300 IN CNAME morbius.ch.collab.net.
morbius.ch.collab.net. 300 IN A 216.127.237.133

How often is svn.collab.net moved? Can't the TTL be upped?

Also, the authoritative servers for the CNAME record are not the same as
the authoritative servers for the A record. (This is not necessarily a
problem, but might make things a tiny bit more fragile.)

[snip]
> > Check the configuration on that machine. In particular the
> > /etc/resolv.conf. Other files to check are /etc/host.conf,
> > /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> You need root access to change those, if that is not available you can
> use switch
>
> $ svn sw --relocate http://svn.collab.net/ http://216.127.237.133/ wc
>
> to hard-code the address in the working copy.
[snip]

As long as you remember to change it when the IP address changes, which
based on the TTLs of the DNS records, could be every 5 minutes ;) (No
I'm not being entirely serious.)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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