Subversion on Leopard Server

I should probably have a category for this stuff for those that don't care...

As I blogged a couple of days ago I finally got my new mini out the door and setup. I waited to turn on the firewall because I wanted to make sure I could remotely administer the box before turning on the firewall to minimize the moving parts. So once it got connected on Monday I spent some time messing with it and was sure I had everything running and turned on the firewall.

What I did not remember though is that I messed with the subversion auth module while I was tweaking the security settings. Everything worked fine (or seemed to) with the firewall engaged so I forgot about it. Yesterday we were trying to get the games reconnected to our subversion server and bang I totally lost access to dudney.net. After much banging my head against a brick wall and such and some great support from my provider I found the following log message.

Ah something in the firewall is blocking access. Turns out I had set my subversion auth mode to digest (must be basic) and that was causing the auth failure, which made the firewall block everything for 15 minutes.