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Re: MySQL Backend

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006Q1_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-01-19 23:08:04 CET

On Jan 19, 2006, at 17:56, Richard Lainchbury wrote:

> The problem was that China seems to block direct requests to IP
> addresses on all ports. So I couldn't give my brother my IP to access
> my machine
>
> ie giving my borther the http address
> http://64.233.187.99/svn/repository_name failed to jump out of China
> even though it worked for me from many places around the UK.
>
> Using a service like dyndns.com also failed as China blocks access to
> all these sites as well (we tried alots to no avail).

Well if China wants to cripple its Internet then that can hardly be
the Subversion team's concern.

> Luckly I have a server, and I set up a DNS A record pointing
> svn.google.com to 64.233.187.99 to get around this problem.

Ah, you control the Google name servers, do you? :-)

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