Thanks Al, This is actually for a farm of servers (right now it is a farm of 1) running Ubuntu on EC2. I was kinda surprised that there wasn't already a mirror in AWS since they actually included ClamAV in their extended package but such is life. My latest thoughts have been around having a single server (or 2) in my farm whose job (among other things) is to run freshclam and then push the updated cvd files (if needed) to a central S3 location. Then all of the servers I have would simply pull from there when changes are needed. This would mean less overhead on the mirrors and more reliability on my servers all being able to update in a timely fashion. I had thought about checking out the wire protocol for freshclam (I don't think it is doc'd but I could use wireshark) so that I could maybe even still run freshclam on my virus checking servers but I am a bit worried that it could change and so I could just invent my own (it is basically something along the lines of "have any of these files changed. Give them to me if they have. And then making sure clamd gets the changes). Has anyone already built something like this? If I do this, I could put the cvds in a public dataset on Amazon S3 so anyone inside AWS could get them for free and fast but I am not sure about that yet. Again, is this something people have done?
Thanks Lee On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: > shclam algorithm attempts to determine a set of sites closest to you > by examining your IP address. Not a perfect solution, but it usually works > to be close enough. > > In my work with ClamXav users, I normally try to discourage them from > changing the setting unless they are experiencing a high rate of > connectivity issues with sites that they probably should not be using. > Doing so is not a standard ClamXav preference option and changing the > freshclam.conf file is not a trivial task for the average Mac user. There > have been occasions in Europe where a mirror site has prevented access from > certain IP blocks, which they aren't supposed to do, but there is really no > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
