On 10/31/07, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Two things,
1) You may be able to go standard DNS lookups, but can you lookup TXT
records? Is DNS over TCP supported by your DNS server (many
organisations block it in the mistaken belief that it improves
security and breaks nothing)
2) See the last post in the thread titled "ClamAV patch download not
working in South Africa"
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Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche
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