Subversion plugin fails to reconnect after any connections are severed

2012-12-13 10:48:43,037 QuartzWorker-0 ERROR ServiceRunner    Subversion Revision Indexing Service [plugin.ext.subversion.SubversionManagerImpl] Error getting the latest revision from the repository.
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: E210004: Malformed network data
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:51)
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.svn.SVNReader.readChar(SVNReader.java:478)
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.svn.SVNReader.skipWhiteSpace(SVNReader.java:485)
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.svn.SVNReader.readTuple(SVNReader.java:287)
	at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.svn.SVNReader.parse(SVNReader.java:241)

2012-12-13 10:54:18,701 http-8080-8 ERROR skrnel 654x7493x1 1t6zng1 10.133.0.43 /browse/HVP-8003 [jira.plugin.issuetabpanel.IssueTabPanelInvokerImpl] Exception thrown while trying to call getActions() for com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion:subversion-commits-tabpanel (Show Subversion commits related to an issue in an issue tab panel.)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The connection to the repository is not active
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.SubversionManagerImpl.getLogEntry(SubversionManagerImpl.java:163)
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.revisions.RevisionIndexer.getLogEntriesByRepository(RevisionIndexer.java:529)
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.issuetabpanels.changes.SubversionRevisionsTabPanel.getActions(SubversionRevisionsTabPanel.java:74)
	at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuetabpanel.IssueTabPanelInvokerImpl.invokeGetActions(IssueTabPanelInvokerImpl.java:92)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor561.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)