[clamav-users] Errors connecting to mirrors

[Dennis Peterson]

If your proxy ignores the TTL for the mirrors then quite likely things will 
grind to a halt for you. All the mirrors are in round-robin dns pools.

dp

On 3/27/18 4:32 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 05:21 PM, Al Varnell wrote:
>> Using the same IP each time with failure will also cause mirrors.dat to temporarily block that IP's use for some period of time. That will require you to trash mirrors.dat and allow it to be rebuilt at the next check.
>>
>> -Al-
> I don't think mirrors.dat comes into play here as the proxy is doing the dns
> lookup, not freshclam.
>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 03:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> On 03/27/2018 03:13 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>>
>>>> I ended up switching freshclam to use our proxy servers and increasing the
>>>> ConnectTimeout to 60 seconds.  This has helped a bit, but I still get the
>>>> occasional issue.  Latest was trying to get daily-24426.cdiff from 72.21.91.8
>>>> around Tue Mar 27 13:31:14 2018 PDT.  These are annoying because they generate
>>>> emails.
>>> This was exacerbated by squid continuing to use the same IP address for the
>>> connection each time freshclam retried the download.  I'm trying enabling
>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/balance_on_multiple_ip/ <http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/balance_on_multiple_ip/> to see if that
>>> helps.
>>
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