title: Can not connect to Remote SVN repositories
body: <p>I am unable to connect to any remote repository to check out the code. I get the following error consistently.</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk'
  svn: E175002: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk': Could not resolve hostname `svn.apache.org'
  : This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an authoritative server. (http://svn.apache.org)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The command that I used is </p>
  
  <pre><code>svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can access the repository using a browser without any issues. </p>
  
  <p>It seems to be an issue with the settings here, as I can access the locally hosted(on my computer, as well as on the corporate network) SVN repositories seamlessly.</p>
  
  <p>Edit:
  Once I figured out that SVN does not use the proxy settings of the host machine, I could quickly edit my <strong>servers</strong> file to fix the issue.</p>