[clamav-users] Clam updates failing

[Al Varnell]

> On Oct 22, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:27:46 +0000
> "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
>>> On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:55, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10/21/2021 10:14 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:  
>>>> 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).  
>>> 
>>> I thought freshclam did the DNS check itself. Why do it again before running freshclam?  
>> 
>> It does.  No need to do an extra check.
> 
> 
> Since checking the DNS TXT record costs almost nothing (and is UDP), I figure I can do it more often than running freshclam without ever risking triggering Cloudflare's bandwidth limits. And, although I currently do it only once per hour, if there ever was something like a SANS Threat Level RED, I could up the frequency to get the latest sigs ASAP.

How would running freshclam every hour trigger Cloudflare's bandwidth limits? There is currently only one actual update per day and the first thing freshclam does is check DNS and quit if there's nothing new.

-Al-
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