On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 02:24:06PM +0100, Gervase wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:49, Ron Snyder wrote: > > > if you do a 'dig database.clamav.net' or a 'host database.clamav.net', do > > you get useful answers? > > No. Both merely say: > "truncated, retrying in TCP mode, > timed out -no servers could be reached". > > I am baffled, especially by the fact that the problem first occurred > for no apparent reason while happily using Clamav 0.70.
Don't give up! Have you tried something along the lines of: host google.co.uk You should see something like: google.co.uk A 216.239.59.104 google.co.uk A 216.239.39.104 google.co.uk A 216.239.57.104 If you don't, then I guess you have a problem interacting with your name server. If it does work, then you could try: traceroute google.co.uk We go through a proxy here which is firewalled, so my traceroute is as follows - but it shows the route up to and including the firewall so you know its getting at least that far. traceroute: Warning: google.co.uk has multiple addresses; using 216.239.39.104 traceroute to google.co.uk (216.239.39.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 labgw-o (10.100.200.1) 0.540 ms 0.221 ms 0.110 ms 2 httpproxy-l (10.100.130.2) 0.321 ms 0.246 ms 0.200 ms 3 httpproxy-l (10.100.130.2) 0.348 ms 0.403 ms 0.316 ms A similar exercise with database.clamav.net resulted in: traceroute: Warning: database.clamav.net has multiple addresses; using 212.31.160.239 traceroute to db.europe.clamav.net (212.31.160.239), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 labgw-o (10.100.200.1) 1.023 ms 0.513 ms 0.394 ms 2 httpproxy-l (10.100.130.2) 0.361 ms 0.440 ms 0.383 ms 3 httpproxy-l (10.100.130.2) 0.509 ms 0.465 ms 0.394 ms What happens is you try: host db.europe.clamav.net I get: db.europe.clamav.net A 193.19.98.136 db.europe.clamav.net A 193.52.101.131 db.europe.clamav.net A 193.138.115.108 db.europe.clamav.net A 193.225.86.3 db.europe.clamav.net A 195.13.43.28 db.europe.clamav.net A 195.70.36.141 db.europe.clamav.net A 195.92.99.99 db.europe.clamav.net A 212.14.28.36 db.europe.clamav.net A 212.31.160.239 db.europe.clamav.net A 212.162.12.159 db.europe.clamav.net A 213.184.16.3 db.europe.clamav.net A 213.203.254.4 db.europe.clamav.net A 62.210.153.201 db.europe.clamav.net A 80.69.67.3 db.europe.clamav.net A 147.229.3.16 db.europe.clamav.net A 152.66.249.132 db.europe.clamav.net A 193.1.219.100 What happens if you try: host 193.19.98.136 I get: Name: morden.dbplc.com Address: 193.19.98.136 I think it would be worth persevering and if you have to specify a few specific IP addresses for freshclam until you get your problem resolved then it's not so terrible. If host works with google.co.uk and it doesn't work with database.clamav.net then somewhere surely there must be a firewall blocking TCP DNS requests? Jo. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users