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Re: Strange behaviour with 'svn' in the host name

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:25:34 -0600

On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:05, kevin_at_klystron.com wrote:

> (All domain names changed for anonymity!)
>
> We have a fully working repository at
>
> svn://www.example.com/Repo
>
> Our DNS is set up so that svn.example.com and www.example.com
> return the
> exact same address. But trying to access
>
> svn://svn.example.com/Repo
>
> results in the error "no repository found". (Note - not "host not
> found"!)
>
> Actually, the 'real' name of the same host is 'frank', and
>
> svn://frank.example.com/Repo
>
> works just fine too.
>
> So is there something about including the letters 'svn' in the host
> name
> which makes subversion go funny?

Nope!

> We are hosting the repository with svnserve 1.4.6 under Ubuntu
> Hardy, and
> using TortoiseSVN 1.5.5 under Win2k as the client.
>
> Anyone got any clues?

Something else in your Apache configuration keying off the letters
"svn"? Even a proxy server somewhere doing something strange with
those letters? What does the Apache error log say at the time when
the error occurs?

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