The current DNS TXT does not work within my company, as a firewall fully blocks things, including DNS. (as an aside, curl works, with sufficient massaging, but wget cannot, as it does not have an option to work with a proxy).
I rely on someone in Arizona to pull definitions from, but sometimes their server goes out, other times clamav's content system breaks, and it's a pain to figure out which one is the culprit. Regards, Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf > Of Christopher X. Candreva > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 10:36 AM > To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> > Subject: [External] Re: [clamav-users] We STILL cannot reliably get virus > updates (since new mirrors) > > > > For everyone (or maybe the one) asking why the DNS system exists, as the > person who came up with the idea in the first place (or the idea of stealing > it from the DNSbls ) I thought I would provide a link to the original > discussion in which is was hashed out ( beaten to death) back in 2004: > > https://lists.gt.net/clamav/users/11106?do=post_view_threaded > > I thought the math was in this thread, but at some point the actual savings > of being able to check for a new version with a UDP packet over a TCP/http > HEAD command was calculated, and it was a significant amount of transfer, > expensive at the time. > > > I have to admit I've wondered if Cloudflare and the other CDN's meant it > outlived it's usefullness, but it's a contribution I'm fairly proud of. > > -Chris > > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 2, 2018, at 1:17 PM, Reindl Harald > > <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > > on a typical setup freshclam is running once or twice *daily* while a > > webserver these days can spit out the same small static txt file many > > thousands of times per seond with zero load > > > > > > That is not the results we are seeing. There are a LARGE amount of people > > that check for updates once or twice a day, yes. However, we have hundreds > > of thousands of people that check for updates hundreds of times a day. We > > haven't started concentrating on these people yet (our biggest offender is > > one IP that checks 100,000+ times a day), but clearly that's excessive. We > > publish approx 5-6 times a day. So, let's say you check 50 times a day.... > > Clearly, that's enough. > > > > -- > > Joel Esler > > Sr. Manager > > Open Source, Design, Web, and Education > > Talos Group > > http://www.talosintelligence.com > > > > > > --- > ======================================================================== > Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- http://www.westnet.com/~chris > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
