Hello all, About a month or so ago, freshclam stopped working for me. At first I thought it might be a short outage, unfortunately that was not the case.
First freshclams's query for current.cvd.clamav.net fails, but the query works when done from the command line. It also seems to fail getting info on db.ca.clamav.net, I'm not sure of the query involved for the db... but from the command line I can get address records. I have also tried using db.us.clamav.net and a couple of European mirrors too. This gateway server uses an internal server that queries root name servers and other authoritative name servers. I have also tried using my ISP's name server. With all combinations, I get more or less the same result. Any suggestions? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net current.cvd.clamav.net descriptive text "0.91.2:44:4641:1193798066:1" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# host db.ca.clamav.net db.ca.clamav.net has address 24.215.0.24 db.ca.clamav.net has address 67.15.61.160 db.ca.clamav.net has address 205.139.192.213 db.ca.clamav.net has address 209.139.239.158 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# freshclam ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 31 02:42:03 2007 WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. Reading CVD header (main.cvd): ERROR: Can't get information about db.ca.clamav.net: Temporary DNS error WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from db.ca.clamav.net (IP: ) LibClamAV Error: Database Directory: /var/lib/clamav not locked Trying again in 5 secs... ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 31 02:42:08 2007 WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. Reading CVD header (main.cvd): ERROR: Can't get information about db.ca.clamav.net: Temporary DNS error WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from db.ca.clamav.net (IP: ) LibClamAV Error: Database Directory: /var/lib/clamav not locked Trying again in 5 secs... ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 31 02:42:13 2007 WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. Reading CVD header (main.cvd): ERROR: Can't get information about db.ca.clamav.net: Temporary DNS error WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from db.ca.clamav.net (IP: ) LibClamAV Error: Database Directory: /var/lib/clamav not locked Giving up on db.ca.clamav.net... Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons. -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
