[clamav-users] Unable to download clamav cvd file using google cloud python function

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Paul Smith via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:

> You *may* be forgetting NAT.
>
> Eg, it's possible the first one is a network of a few thousand  
> computers going through a NAT firewall where each of them has had an  
> old daily.cvd copied onto them in an internal release cycle or  
> something, so each of the computers on that network is trying to  
> download a backlog of CDIFFs. (Or maybe another problem stopping the  
> updates has been discovered and fixed, or something)

In that case, the organisation behind that NAT should provide a local  
mirror. There is no excuse for running thousands of systems on a  
single IP (if that is even possible) and not use a local mirror.

> I'm not saying it is, but it may be. If you are only analysing by IP  
> address, NAT will innocently cause strange results.

There is nothing innocent about the above scenario, it's either  
negliance or incompetence.