On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:25:41 +0700
"tung dang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Dear Torok Edwin and friends,
>Many thanks for your information.
>
>You say below that it is a private mirror,  and you say here that it is
>> a public mirror.
>> Which one is it?
>>
>> If you want to become a *public* mirror, do you have the necesary
>> bandwidth? (10 Mbit/s, unlimited traffic)
>
>
>As i mentioned in the first email, now i have been investigating
>ClamAV on some commercial products, so we need to evaluate from many
>aspects. We want to build our own mirror, so we can manage any
>services on it. Bandwidth, traffic or any other condition is not our
>problem. Can you give me some advices for some following questions:
>+ If i build a Windows-mirror, what version we should use (server2003,
>server2008, xp ...)
>+ If i build a linux-mirror, what distro we should use (centos, fedora,
>debian, ubuntu ...)
>
>Maybe some distro of linux, version of windows has some advantages over
>other distros, versions. So i would like to know, what distro of
>linux, what version of windows are best
>
>>
>> No, you can't rebuild a .cvd.
>>
>> I think you can write some script to fetch the .cdiff file from the
>> public mirror, launched from freshclam's --on-update-execute.
>> You then put these files on your local webserver, and set your other
>> freshclams to use your webserver as a mirror.
>> Then those freshclams should be able to use .cdiff files also.
>> The problem is that if incremental update fails [*], they will look
>> for a .cvd file, so you would need the master freshclam to download
>> a .cvd anyway.
>>
>> I think it is much simpler, if you just set up all freshclams to use
>> a caching proxy, that way:
>> - you don't waste public mirrors bandwidth, since each DB update is
>> downloaded only once for the entire network
>> - you don't waste public mirror bandwidth by downloading a .cvd file
>> each time
>> - it will work even if a .cdiff fails to be applied [*]
>>
>> [*]: incremental update can fail if your DB is too old, and not all
>> .cdiffs are available anymore from the mirrors, or due to a corrupted
>> download

If it were me, I would use either the latest version of Windows that
your can get, or use FreeBSD to handle the job.


-- 
Jerry
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