Clam Anti-Virus database down?

jspaceman · 03-22-2004, 09:47 PM

I'm curious if database.clamav.net is down? All during the day today, whenever I try to run freshclam, I keep getting the following message in my clamav log:

Quote:

ClamAV update process started at Mon Mar 22 22:30:01 2004
ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host.
ERROR: Connection with database.clamav.net (IP: ???) failed.
Trying again...
ClamAV update process started at Mon Mar 22 22:31:18 2004
ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host.
ERROR: Connection with database.clamav.net (IP: ???) failed.
Trying again...

When I try to ping database.clamav.net I get

Quote:

ping: unknown host: database.clamav.net

Anyone else experiencing this? Or is the problem at my end?

jeremy · 03-22-2004, 10:27 PM

It's up. They made a DNS change today that made the DNS packet go from UDP to TCP (due to size). You may want to ensure your firewall rules are setup appropriately.

--jeremy

jspaceman · 03-22-2004, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jeremy
It's up. They made a DNS change today that made the DNS packet go from UDP to TCP (due to size). You may want to ensure your firewall rules are setup appropriately.

--jeremy

I'm not sure I understand. I have freshclam set up in my crontab, so that it automatically updates the virus definitions once a day. Freshclam uses the config file /etc/freshclam.conf I believe, but I don't see anything in there about UDP or TCP. And the only firewall I have running is a Netgear firewall router which doesn't run linux.

jspaceman · 03-23-2004, 02:53 AM

Nevermind, I think I fixed it. I changed the nameserver section in /etc/resolv.conf from:

Code:

nameserver 192.168.0.1

which is the IP of my firewall router, to:

Code:

nameserver 24.153.23.66

which is one of my ISP's DNS servers.