Index: trunk/server/doc/install-fedora
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--- trunk/server/doc/install-fedora	(revision 2347)
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     xm create scripts-server machine_name=$MACHINE && console $MACHINE
+
+Networking and Subversion
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Our Subversion repository lives at svn://scripts.mit.edu/. Our hosts bind to
+scripts.mit.edu on localhost. Unfortunately, this means that checking out the
+subversion repository on a new server while you're in the process of setting it
+up sometimes won't work. In particular, if the server is already binding the
+scripts.mit.edu IP address, but not yet serving svn, your attempt to do the
+checkout will connect to the local machine and fail.
+
+Any of the following should let you evade this issue:
+* Avoid doing any svn operations between your first reboot and when svn is
+  working. The networking changes from the install won't take effect until you
+  reboot. Ordinarily, you won't need to do any commits or updates between the
+  reboot and when LDAP and svn:// serving are working.
+* Temporarily down the lo alias with the scripts.mit.edu IP address
+  (18.181.0.43; seems to be lo:3 semi-consistently)
+* Do your svn checkout from a current host, instead of scripts.mit.edu
+  (for example, use svn://whole-enchilada.mit.edu/). Don't forget to
+  svn switch --relocate to scripts.mit.edu once the server is set up.