[clamav-users] TTL of DNS recode

[Simon Hobson]

Tsutomu Oyamada <oyamada at promark-inc.com> wrote:

> ClamAV update process started at Sat Nov  5 05:01:15 2016
> Using IPv6 aware code
> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
> TTL: 1797
> Software version from DNS: 0.99.2
> main.cvd version from DNS: 57
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 57, sigs: 4218790, f-level: 60, builder: amishhamner)
> daily.cvd version from DNS: 22473
> 
> This log shows that freshclam was started at 5:01 of 5th Nov. and the result of querying DNS was "daily.cvd version: 22473".
> According to the mail [clamav-virusdb] which is sent daily, the daily.cvd version should be 22479 at 5:01 of 5th Nov.
> 
> We want to know why freshclam cannot get the latest daily.cvd version.
> Is this difference of daily.cvd version caused by cache of DNS?

OK, try restarting freshclam and see what comes up in the logs. 5th Nov is quite a while ago !
If it still doesn't get the correct information, give us the output of "dig current.cvd.clamav.net txt" - you may need to install the dig (Domain Internet Groper) package.