[clamav-users] Specify more servers for clamdscan to pass for scanning

Brent Clark brentgclarklist at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 05:31:03 UTC 2018


Good day

Thanks all for the the replies.
Much appreciated.

Regards
Brent

On 2018/11/05 17:19, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) wrote:
> Hi Brent,
> 
> clamdscan and clamd share the same config file.  clamd uses it to set up 
> the TCP socket to listen, and clamdscan uses it to know how to talk to 
> clamd.  As a consequence, setting multiple TCPAddr's would make no sense 
> to clamd as it will only open 1 socket to listen for connections.
> 
> I'd be interested to know if someone has come up with a hack for how to 
> have clamdscan fail over to a secondary clamd instance - but I'm not 
> aware of a way to do that.
> 
> I would bare in mind that if your'e using clamd on a machine remote from 
> the clamdscan machine, the TCP connection is not encrypted at this time 
> - meaning your file contents may be streamed in plaintext across your 
> network.  If you need to do this, consider setting up a SSH tunnel to 
> facilitate an encrypted connection.
> 
> Regards,
> Micah
> 
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:brentgclarklist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Good day Guys
>>
>> I have setup two clamd servers.
>>
>> On my Webservers, I need to stream a file to the clamd for scanning.
>>
>> I would like to ask, how would I specify two TCPAddr.
>>
>> If I specify just one, server, everything works ok.
>> Ive tried various options and google does not appears to be of assists.
>>
>> How does one specify more than one server for scanning?
>>
>> I would like to use this a poor mans "fail over", so that if one 
>> server is down, clamscan will move on to the next server.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards
>> Brent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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