[clamav-users] Clam updates failing

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Ben Argyle via clamav-users wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone been having trouble downloading updates for the last 20
>>> hours or so?  ...
>>
>> Yesterday I saw a couple of warnings about the DNS record being old,
>> but apart from that things seem to have been working OK here:
>
> I've never seen a DNS age warning, but that might be because, for
> several years now, I only run freshclam when the DNS TXT record
> (which I check hourly) says there is a new signature available
> compared to a local file's version number (in its header).
> 
> Maybe I should also look at the DNS record's TS field. What is
> considered "old" for this?

The log warns that the record is more than three hours is old.

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73,
Ged.