Troubleshooting Subversion connection failure

Question

I'm having some troubles connecting to our subversion box. We connect to the subversion server over Hamachi VPN and this has been working for over a year.

Just recently, I am receiving a generic connection error:

C:>svn info svn://subversion/repos/ svn: Can't connect to host 'subversion': A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

I can resolve the subversion box through the Windows file manager. I've disabled the firewall for testing. I can connect to server from other clients on the VPN network, so that's pointing to an issue on my laptop. Beyond that, I don't know how to troubleshoot this issue.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can try:

ping subversion

if that succeeds, then:

telnet subversion 3690

If a basic connection is functional you will get a line like:

( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries
commit-revprops depth log-revprops partial-replay ) ) )

If that doesn't work then look to see if the subversion server was disabled or if the default port number was altered.