On Jul 9, 2020, at 6:20 PM, Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com> wrote:

Lol,  there is a long thread on mail ops that pretty much says the same.  But he asked about checking through a proxy on http protocol so that’s his choice.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 9, 2020, at 5:55 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

You’re just giving your lookup to someone else.  

Sent from my  iPhone

On Jul 9, 2020, at 14:11, Richard Graham via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:



Or for more advertised privacy:

curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' 'https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=AAAA'

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:58 PM Richard Graham <rickhg12hs@gmail.com> wrote:

There are several DOH severs.

You could also try:

curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' 'https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=A'

... or even just:

curl 'https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=A'

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:51 PM Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com> wrote:

You could query using DoH:
#curl -H 'accept: application/dns-json' 'https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=current.cvd.clamav.net&type=TXT'


> -----Original Message-----
> From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net] On
> Behalf Of André Weidemann
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2020 9:45 AM
> To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
> Subject: [clamav-users] How to determine virus database version from behind
> proxy?
>
> Hi,
>
> in my current working environment I do not have direct internet access,
> nor is it possible to query public DNS servers.
> Running a command like "host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net" yields no
> result.
> The only way out is a proxy.
> I still would like to figure out whether or not my local database is up
> to date.
> Can I retrieve the information contained in the DNS TXT record via a
> http(s) source as well? If so, how?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
>   André




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