[clamav-users] Downloading CVD files manually..

[Paul Smith]

OK, I've seen the rate limiting post, and that's understandable.

We're running an (old) version of Freshclam every hour, and that's just 
started failing with '403 Forbidden' errors. I guess we'll need to 
update to a more recent version, which is OK, but not trivial in our 
case so may take us a few days to implement properly. (It needs doing, 
so I'm not too bothered by having to do it, but it'd be nice to have a 
workaround until that can be done).

So, I thought we'd run a private mirror using the instructions here: 
https://www.clamav.net/documents/private-local-mirrors as then we 
wouldn't have any issues with rate limiting, and would help by reducing 
the load on your servers, etc.

Unfortunately, those don't work any more, because "wget 
http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd" also fails with a 403 Forbidden 
error. I've tried from multiple PCs on multiple networks, and it always 
fails.

(Note that we're not getting a 429, so we're not being rate limited, 
just blocked totally)

So, your request in your rate limiting post of "2. Consider setting up a 
local mirror on your network" is seemingly impossible to do.

Is there any new trick to setting up a local mirror?

(PS - also, on my PC, 'wget' fails, but Chrome can download the updates 
absolutely fine, so it's not blocking my IP address, just the use of wget)


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