I believe support for IPv6 in the SVN client is based solely on how the APR library was compiled. It has to have IPv6 support compiled in as it does the TCP connections etc.
> On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:48 PM, darx_at_sent.com wrote:
>
> With my resolvers set to IPv6
>
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 2600:3c01::2
> nameserver 2600:3c01::3
> options rotate
>
> lookups work
>
> dig A www.nlnetlabs.nl +short
> 213.154.224.1
> dig A git.varnish-cache.org +short
> 194.31.39.164
> dig AAAA www.nlnetlabs.nl +short
> 2001:7b8:206:1::1
> dig AAAA git.varnish-cache.org +short
> (empty)
>
> git, e.g., works
>
> git clone git://git.varnish-cache.org/varnish-cache varnish-test
> Cloning into 'varnish-test'...
> remote: Counting objects: 67047, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19821/19821), done.
> remote: Total 67047 (delta 51735), reused 61991 (delta
> 47133)
> Receiving objects: 100% (67047/67047), 10.23 MiB | 154
> KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (51735/51735), done.
>
> in short, 'everything' IPv6 works here ... except for subversion,
>
> svn co http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL/
> nsd4-test
> svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> 'http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL'
> svn: E175002: OPTIONS of
> 'http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL':
> Could not resolve hostname `www.nlnetlabs.nl': Host not
> found (http://www.nlnetlabs.nl)
>
> reading @
>
> @
> http://www.wandisco.com/svnforum/threads/54273-svn-error-when-checkout-from-ipv6-url
>
> IPv6 support is (?) in svn v>1.8
>
> checking locally
>
> svn --version
> svn, version 1.7.13 (r1516569)
>
> so, upgrading to
>
> svn --version
> svn, version 1.8.4 (r1534716)
>
> retrying with new version still fails,
>
> svn co http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL/
> nsd4-test
> svn: E670002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> 'http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL'
> svn: E670002: Name or service not known
>
> changing resolvers to IPv4
>
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 74.207.241.5
> nameserver 74.207.242.5
> options rotate
>
> now, retrying works
>
> svn co http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_0_0_REL/
> nsd4-test
> ...
> Checked out revision 4089.
>
> clearly, IPv4 usage in svn works; IPv6 doesn't. At least -- here.
>
> reading CHANGES, and poking around in upstream sources, it's not clear
> to me what that status of IPv6 support in SVN is.
>
> IS there full IPv6 support in svn?
>
> darx
Received on 2013-11-02 18:56:03 CET