On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:33:05PM -0400, Chris Meadors wrote:
> > Suppose there was a DNS entry, say virusdb.clamav.net (or
> > version.virusdb.clamav.net, etc), that returned simply a text record with
> > the current DB version in it. Then, it would be possible to check the
> > version with a relatively cheap single UDP packet, rather than a full http
> > check, and people could check for DB updates more often than once an hour
> > without taxing the distribution system.
>
> Then all users would sworm to download the new sig, as soon as that
> serial number incrimented, flooding the download server with update
> requests.
Only tracker.clamav.net (can be loadbalanced) should be able to handle
a fair number of connections, but daily.cvd.torrent is small enough
you could put it in a DNS TXT record :) (OK, DNS is far from secure,
so reliability will be at stake in that case... you might need to
cryptographically sign the file).
(1/2 :-)
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