[clamav-users] Mirror issues and what we are doing to fix it

[Dennis Peterson]

Awesome, Joel. Everything is greatly appreciated.

dp

On 8/30/17 3:28 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
> Dennis,
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> The team has been cleaning this up almost all day.  Expect the work to continue for awhile.
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> On Aug 30, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Dennis Peterson <dennispe at inetnw.com<mailto:dennispe at inetnw.com>> wrote:
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> I had the same thing happen and I also got successful dl's of the daily.cld file multiple times and I'm sure it would have continued looping forever if I'd not stopped it after observing it was stuck in a loop. Same symptoms on two separate systems. Couldn't find the cdiff file and the corresponding daily.cld file was not available.
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> Several times my client would start a daily.cld only to have the connection terminated by the server. The data speed was very low - after 10 minutes a daily.cld file would be at 40%. Because the daily.cld file was not current the attempt to dl a diff file would begin immediately.
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> I think it unwise to have mirrors in Germany and Spain included in the db.us.clamav.net<http://db.us.clamav.net> RR, and the cdiff files should not be available until the corresponding daily.cld file is already available else these loops will happen.
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> dp
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> On 8/30/17 6:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 August 2017 08:48:42 Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
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> Gene,
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> Thanks.  I’ll give this to the ops team.
> I had a total failure at 18:00 EDT last night:
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> Tue Aug 29 18:02:04 2017 -> Received signal: wake up
> Tue Aug 29 18:02:04 2017 -> ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 29 18:02:04 2017
> Tue Aug 29 18:02:04 2017 -> main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
> Tue Aug 29 18:02:35 2017 -> nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs)
> Tue Aug 29 18:02:35 2017 -> WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from db.us.clamav.net<http://db.us.clamav.net> (IP: 150.214.142.197): Operation
> now in progress
> Tue Aug 29 18:02:35 2017 -> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23735.cdiff from db.us.clamav.net<http://db.us.clamav.net>
> Tue Aug 29 18:03:08 2017 -> Downloading daily-23735.cdiff [100%]
> Tue Aug 29 18:03:39 2017 -> nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs)
> Tue Aug 29 18:03:39 2017 -> WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from db.us.clamav.net<http://db.us.clamav.net> (IP: 200.236.31.1): Operation now
> in progress
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