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svnserve listening for incoming connections over IPv6
Submitted by Bram Schoenmakers on 23 November, 2007 - 12:05.
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By default, when you start the SVN server, svnserve, it listens on a port via the IPv6 protocol. This means you cannot connect to the server when approaching it with a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IPv4) address.

You can solve this by adding the following parameter to the svnserve call:

# svnserve --listen-host 0.0.0.0

You should supply this in the configuration file taking care of starting svnserve.

For FreeBSD, you need to replace the existing line in rc.conf starting with svnserve_flags with the following line:

svnserve_flags="-d --listen-port 3690 --listen-host 0.0.0.0"

The SVN server is now reachable on a IPv4 address.

Thanks. This was driving me

Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on 29 May, 2008 - 00:22.

Thanks. This was driving me crazy.

Ditto, why this isn't

Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on 27 July, 2008 - 06:34.

Ditto, why this isn't documented better is beyond me.

Typo

Submitted by Lertulo (not verified) on 4 October, 2008 - 20:05.

In the windows line above, you need to add "--listen-host 0.0.0.0", not "--listen-port 0.0.0.0" as is shown.

Thanks, fixed.

Submitted by Bram Schoenmakers on 4 October, 2008 - 22:16.

Thanks, fixed.