[clamav-users] Errors connecting to mirrors

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> It seems like in the last month or so I'm seeing more timeouts connecting to
> the clamav DB mirrors.  Is anyone else seeing this?  I have a bit of a strange
> mirror setup so it might just be my configuration.

Yes, I'm seeing some in the UK recently, but more like the last week
than the last month.  This is the last two months' logs:

/var/log/clamav# >>> grep connect freshclam.log.1 freshclam.log
freshclam.log:Fri Mar 16 19:44:27 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Fri Mar 16 19:44:27 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)
freshclam.log:Sun Mar 18 21:45:24 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Sun Mar 18 21:45:24 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 04:48:02 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 04:48:02 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 12:51:05 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 12:51:05 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 22:52:13 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Wed Mar 21 22:52:13 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)
freshclam.log:Thu Mar 22 04:52:53 2018 -> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
freshclam.log:Thu Mar 22 04:52:53 2018 -> Can't connect to port 80 of host db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 178.79.177.182)

I haven't investigated carefully, but I've no reason to believe that
the problem is within our network.  We run Smokeping continuously, and
there's no sign of anything in the graphs of packet loss and RTTs to
off-site servers which could explain something like this.

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73,
Ged.