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

[lukn]

Hello List and Joel

I still see freshclam failures for mirror 193.230.240.8

WARNING: getfile: daily-23823.cdiff not found on database.clamav.net
(IP: 193.230.240.8)
WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23823.cdiff from database.clamav.net


freshclam --list-mirrors
[..]
Mirror #2
IP: 193.230.240.8
Successes: 0
Failures: 31
Last access: Wed Sep 13 15:15:03 2017
Ignore: Yes


Apologies, I don't have full freshclam debug output available.


On 28.08.2017 15:33, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
> ClamAV Community —
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> For too long we’ve had a problem with mirrors and downloads.  There are a bunch of really good excuses for this internally, but I can comfortably say that we are beyond the problems we had in the past, and now it’s time for us to go fix it.
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> As of Friday, I assumed control (From a Project Owner point of view, I don’t directly control the mirrors), over the ClamAV Mirror infrastructure and am taking steps to clean this up.
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> (Internally we break ClamAV down into a bunch of pieces, a little “inside baseball” for you, but we have the development team, them mirror project, the signature interface (where all signatures are written, tested, and published), the malware team.  All of these responsibilities are spread amongst several groups within Talos<https://www.talosintelligence.com> (who owns ClamAV inside of Cisco, amongst many other things).)
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> I have called a meeting with our ClamAV team, both from my team (the Open Source Team), the mirror team (operations), and the PM for Development on Thursday.  My plan is to outline an immediate “fix” trajectory.   What is working, what isn’t working, immediate fixes, and finally suggestions for moving forward.
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> Please continue to bear with us a little while longer.  They always say things get worse before they get better.  Right now, hopefully, we are at the “worst” stage.
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> Joel Esler | Talos: Manager | jesler at cisco.com<mailto:jesler at cisco.com>
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