On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at  8:00:00 -0500, xterm1 wrote:
> 
>       What we have is several ip's on one Interface 00.00.00.173<-->178
> 
>       Freshclam is trying to use 00.00.00.173 but that IP will not allow 
> incoming
> traffic at the moment due to a provider block on that ip from a SYN attack.
> 
>       So when Freshclam runs the traffic goes out but it cannot come back in! 
> on
> that same IP. As I say it is our problem that the original configuration
> "which works great" won't work for now.

Now I understand.

You may set up and use a proxy server (HTTPProxyServer) so that it
downloads databases on behalf of that blocked IP address.

Or do some redirecting of packets by means of the firewall or
the firewall code in the host itself.

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