> Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni <giampa...@tomassoni.biz>: > > > What if this DNS name stops responding (and be propagated to mirrors) > and > > instead a new current1.cvd.clamav.net (or maybe > current.cvd1.clamav.net if > > you dislike the first) start working? Clamav's 0.96 could issue > requests to > > that brand new name to get updates, while old clamav installations - > which > > are unaware of it- would simply fail updating. > > So instead of breaking only the really old clamav installs, you've > broken > ALL the non-0.96 installs? Why break the 0.95 installs as well?
It is not something to do know, but instead something that could have been done introducing 0.96... Did you read all the post? You didn't, right? > And again, if the old versions keep running, but don't get updates, it > is > a dis-service to those who think they are being protected but are not. Most of them know exactly their AV is not up-to-date. Nevertheless, their mail server works and only have to be careful opening new mail. Can they prefer to take some risk and not pay someone to update their systems? Giampaolo _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
