[clamav-users] Latest report on update "delays"

[Gary R. Schmidt]

On 23/10/2018 13:28, Paul Kosinski wrote:
> "I'm convinced that [malware analysis] interval exceeds the delay due to
> sync problems by such a margin that the first interval needs as much
> focus as can be committed while the distribution issues are handled at
> a lower priority."
> 
> I mainly agree (and I much appreciate the efforts of the ClamAV team).
> 
> What we found, unfortunately, was that after the switch to Cloudflare,
> the mirror sync problems observed by "stock" freshclam resulted in all
> the mirrors being blacklisted, causing future ClamAV virus updates to
> cease. This meant distribution issues became extremely important.
> 
Would just adding a cron job that deletes "mirrors.dat" every so often 
be an acceptable work-around?

It amuses me that my mirrors.dat file contains five entries that all 
point to the same IP address, that's just a bit pointless!

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)