[clamav-users] Error 429 when updating database

[Marko Randjelovic]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:52:01 +0200
Marko Randjelovic <markoran at eunet.rs> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:44:46 +0200
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
> 
> > On 08.04.21 16:37, markoran at eunet.rs wrote:  
> > >I use ClamAV on a Devuan ASCII (based on Debian Stretch) machine and 
> > >when try to update databases I get error 429 from server (logged in 
> > >/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log):
> > >
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> ClamAV update process started at Thu Apr  
> > >8 14:23:32 2021
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is 
> > >OUTDATED!
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> WARNING: Local version: 0.102.4 
> > >Recommended version: 0.103.2
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> DON'T PANIC! Read 
> > >https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> daily database available for download 
> > >(remote version: 26134)
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> WARNING: downloadFile: Unexpected response 
> > >(429) from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> WARNING: getcvd: Can't download daily.cvd 
> > >from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
> > >Thu Apr  8 14:23:32 2021 -> Trying again in 5 secs...
> > >
> > >Is there a way to solve this?    
> > 
> > code 429 means you make a problem:
> > 
> > https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2021-March/010544.html
> > 
> > are you behind NAT? do you use clamav on multiple machines?
> > 
> >   
> 
> After a long time I tried to scan a file but saw databases are very old
> and update was not working. Then I deleted databases
> from /var/lib/clamav thinking this will resolve problem. But obviously
> I was wrong. And yes, I have another machine with clamav which is
> behind the same NAT as the problematic machine.
> 
> Now I just copied files from another machine and freshclam says
> databases are up to date. I'll see after update become available if
> freshclam will be able to download it.

Hi all,

This morning I tunrned the machine on and according to the log
everything is fine (for now):

Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> --------------------------------------
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> freshclam daemon 0.102.4 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64)
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> WARNING: Local version: 0.102.4 Recommended version: 0.103.2
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
Sat Apr 10 08:18:36 2021 -> daily database available for update (local version: 26134, remote version: 26135)
Sat Apr 10 08:18:51 2021 -> Testing database: '/var/lib/clamav/tmp.2b89c/clamav-432b432fd939b436dca2c710f8d051cd.tmp-daily.cld' ...
Sat Apr 10 08:19:02 2021 -> Database test passed.
Sat Apr 10 08:19:02 2021 -> daily.cld updated (version: 26135, sigs: 3969549, f-level: 63, builder: raynman)
Sat Apr 10 08:19:03 2021 -> main.cvd database is up to date (version: 59, sigs: 4564902, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
Sat Apr 10 08:19:03 2021 -> bytecode.cld database is up to date (version: 333, sigs: 92, f-level: 63, builder: awillia2)
Sat Apr 10 08:19:03 2021 -> WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory
Sat Apr 10 08:19:03 2021 -> --------------------------------------

Regards,
Marko