>> Datum: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:52:13 -0700
>> Von: Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com>
>> An: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
>> Betreff: Re: [Clamav-users] Version 0.96: WARNING: DNS record is older than  
>> 3 hours.
>
>> Hi--
>> 
>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Markus Egg wrote:
>> > I solved it:
>> > in my /etc/freshclam.conf there was still
>> > #DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net
>> > obviously freshclam then takes a default server
>> > ( database.clamav.net ?)
>> > which has no DST and therefore the 
>> > "DNS record is older than 3 hours." message.
>> > 
>> > Putting 
>> > DatabaseMirror db.AT.clamav.net
>> > into the config file solved the issue.
>> 
>> This is surprising to me.  I would have assumed that freshclam and the DNS
>> record checking should all be done in UTC/GMT and not in the local
>> timezone.
>> 
>> What platform are you running, and does the system clock you use run in
>> GMT with /etc/localtime pointing to the appropriate TZ zoneinfo file, or
>> whatever the appropriate convention is for setting up time correctly?
>
>Actually after some trials it does not solve the problem.
>Obviously it was just some coincidence and I get the error again even
>with
>DatabaseMirror db.at.clamav.net
>or
>DatabaseMirror db.de.clamav.net
>:-(
>I'll use 
>freshclam --no-dns

This is not an acceptable solution here for us...we have over 50
machines and several scripts on each that will need updating...what
exactly is broken here...I'm seeing this error in the 0.95.3 version
as well so it has NOTHING to do with 0.96....

0.95.3 was working just fine and with no changes on this end is now
broken...

]# freshclam --version                                        
ClamAV 0.95.3/10714/Wed Apr  7 15:27:00 2010
[r...@saturn ~]# freshclam  
ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr  7 19:24:28 2010
WARNING: DNS record is older than 3 hours.
WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.
Reading CVD header (main.cvd): Trying host db.us.clamav.net
(209.222.131.222)...
OK (IMS)
main.cvd is up to date (version: 52, sigs: 704727, f-level: 44,
builder: sven)
Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): WARNING: Can't read daily.cvd header
from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 209.222.131.222)
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