[clamav-users] How to determine virus database version from behind proxy?

[Richard Graham]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:55 PM Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler at cisco.com>
wrote:

> You’re just giving your lookup to someone else.
>

That includes typical lookups to DNS servers.  One could ask who has access
to each query, what they do with it, how long do they keep it, who else do
they give it to, etc.

What do you think about DNS over TOR?

On Jul 9, 2020, at 14:11, Richard Graham via clamav-users <
> clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

Or for more advertised privacy:
>
> curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' '
> https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=AAAA
> '
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:58 PM Richard Graham <rickhg12hs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There are several DOH severs.
>>
>> You could also try:
>>
>> curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' '
>> https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=A'
>>
>>
>> ... or even just:
>>
>>
>> curl 'https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=A'
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:51 PM Eric Tykwinski <eric-list at truenet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You could query using DoH:
>>> #curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' '
>>> https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=TXT
>>> '
>>>
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net] On
>>> > Behalf Of André Weidemann
>>> > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2020 9:45 AM
>>> > To: clamav-users at lists.clamav.net
>>> > Subject: [clamav-users] How to determine virus database version from
>>> behind
>>> > proxy?
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > in my current working environment I do not have direct internet access,
>>> > nor is it possible to query public DNS servers.
>>> > Running a command like "host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net" yields no
>>> > result.
>>> > The only way out is a proxy.
>>> > I still would like to figure out whether or not my local database is up
>>> > to date.
>>> > Can I retrieve the information contained in the DNS TXT record via a
>>> > http(s) source as well? If so, how?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot in advance.
>>> >
>>> >   André
>>>
>>>
>>>
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