svn switch: FROM needs to be accessible?

I have a problem with using svn switch. We are relocating our svn server
so now we want to switch all our repositories. I tried this:

svn switch --relocate svn+ssh://user@OLDSERVER/repo/trunk
svn+ssh://user@NEWSERVER/repo/trunk

However, after a few minutes of runtime I get a "ssh: connect to host
OLDSERVER port 22: Connection timed out. svn: Connection closed
unexpectedly".

Does that mean that in order to switch repositories, the old repository
URL must still be accessible? I was hoping the command would just
replace the URL strings in all the .svn folders without actually
connecting to the host.

I issued the switch command via our server which runs an old svn (1.1.4)
if that helps.

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Received on 2008-02-25 13:57:41 CET