[clamav-users] Freshclam network unreachable

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 March 2021 09:37:59 Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users 
wrote:

> Out of procedural curiosity, why would someone want to disable ipv6?

zero support for it within 130 miles of me,  Well, maybe in Charleston 
WV, but that is still 100 miles. ipv6 traffic is blocked at my cable 
supplied modem sitting on a shelf at the other end of this smallish 
room. So I obviously disable it to make ipv4 the default hookups here.

> > On Mar 8, 2021, at 6:40 PM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
> > <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Adam Bashore via clamav-users wrote:
> >> I'm able to telnet to port 80 at db.local.clamav.net without issue.
> >> but I get a 403 forbidden when i try to download main.clv directly
> >> with wget (wget http://db.local.clamav.net/main.cvd)
> >
> > There's been a flurry of recent activity on the mailing list about
> > the abuse of ClamAV DB service, see the archives for more detail but
> > I think Joel's reply has answered this part.
> >
> >> I'm not convinced that it's a network issue. Can anyone explain why
> >> freshclam appears to be trying IPv6 even though the host only has
> >> an IPv4 address on eth1?
> >
> > I think it is a network issue.  Most network software doesn't know
> > what interface it's going to use, it just asks the resolver for an
> > address.  Your resolver provides an IPv6 address and freshclam tries
> > to use it.
> >
> > To build freshclam (and everything else) from source without IPv6
> > support you could (at least theoretically, I've never tried it
> > myself) use the 'configure' option '--disable-ipv6'.  Alternatively,
> > which I'd suggest is preferable, you can fix the network's IPv6
> > connectivity.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 73,
> > Ged.
> >
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