TSVN DNS error: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found

Question

Colleagues,

I've updated my TSVN client and now I'm getting this error when trying to update or commit to different repositories. Any ideas on how I can solve this? Thanks. IE shows up appropriate URL just fine.

TortoiseSVN 1.5.3, Build 13783

Answer 1

This error being reported is a winsock one, rather than being particular to TSVN. From Windows Sockets Error Codes:

The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for, e.g. an MX record is returned but no A record - indicating the host itself exists, but is not directly reachable.

It is strange that you can access the host via IE however. Is it possible that in TSVN you've specified a port number that isn't available on the remote host, and IE is accessing the host on port 80?

Answer 2

Did you change the connection protocol (eg. from svn to http or from http to https)? Or did any firewall configuration between your PC and the SVN server change? SVN over HTTP uses DAV verbs to perform actions, so it might be that these are blocked in a firewall.

Answer 3

Guys, thanks for your answers. Everything was fixed by yet another reboot (2 reboots after TSVN update).

Still I can't explain what happened. :)

Answer 4

I got this error when trying to run both TeamCity and Visual SVN Server on the same virtual pc. Turning of the TeamCity services solved the problem for me. It is possible that the two web servers was having a little struggle with each other.