[clamav-users] Unable to download database

[Dennis Peterson]

After testing several of the DNS round robin aliases I found the 
db.ca.clamav.net had the most reliable server set for North America. After 
editing the freshclam.conf file the files updated on the next cron.hourly cycle.

I also found that the number of viable mirror sites is a small portion of the 
total number of mirrors. I also found that a lot of "local" mirrors are not all 
that local.

I think I'll run a health check of every mirror in the western hemisphere and 
use the results in a local DNS round robin running my own servers. It is a form 
of dynamic load balancing using real-time network response time. If nothing else 
it will stop most if not all attempts to missing mirrors which seem to be the 
majority. Obviously it will also ignore mirrors that disallow icmp traffic.

dp

On 8/23/17 9:48 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> nslookup db.local.clamav.net |awk '/Address:/ {print $2}' |xargs -L1 ping -c 1
>
> nslookup db.us.clamav.net |awk '/Address:/ {print $2}' |xargs -L1 ping -c 1
>
> nslookup db.ca.clamav.net |awk '/Address:/ {print $2}' |xargs -L1 ping -c 1
>
> nslookup db.ru.clamav.net |awk '/Address:/ {print $2}' |xargs -L1 ping -c 1
>
> nslookup db.uk.clamav.net |awk '/Address:/ {print $2}' |xargs -L1 ping -c 1
>
>
> Nobody home.
>
> dp
>
> On 8/23/17 12:26 AM, lukn555 wrote:
>> Good Day ClamAV List
>>
>> Since yesterday at around noon CET I've been having issues downloading
>> the ClamAV database:
>>
>> freshclam --version
>> ClamAV 0.99.2/23696/Tue Aug 22 14:36:14 2017
>>
>>
>> # /usr/local/bin/freshclam --verbose
>> Current working dir is /usr/local/share/clamav
>> Max retries == 3
>> ClamAV update process started at Wed Aug 23 09:11:52 2017
>> Using IPv6 aware code
>> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
>> TTL: 609
>> Software version from DNS: 0.99.2
>> main.cvd version from DNS: 58
>> main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60,
>> builder: sigmgr)
>> daily.cvd version from DNS: 23700
>> Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/daily-23697.cdiff
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23697.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>> Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/daily-23697.cdiff
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23697.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>> Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/daily-23697.cdiff
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23697.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>> WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
>> Whitelisting short-term blacklisted mirrors
>> Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 130.59.113.36 (due to previous errors)
>> Ignoring mirror 193.230.240.8 (due to previous errors)
>> WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
>> Trying again in 5 secs...
>>
>>
>> # dig database.clamav.net +short
>> db.local.clamav.net.
>> db.centraleu.clamav.net.
>> 130.59.113.36
>> 193.230.240.8
>>
>>
>> # wget http://database.clamav.net/daily-23697.cdiff
>> --2017-08-23 09:14:16-- http://database.clamav.net/daily-23697.cdiff
>> Resolving database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)... 193.230.240.8,
>> 130.59.113.36
>> Connecting to database.clamav.net
>> (database.clamav.net)|193.230.240.8|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
>> 2017-08-23 09:14:16 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>>
>>
>> Is this an issue on my side or on ClamAV mirror side?
>> Any help is appreciated.
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