"...it works smoothly for a very large number of people, myself included."
It would be interesting to know what percentage have experienced our original problem of all mirrors ending up blacklisted. I also wonder how many ClamAV users monitor their logs: I don't remember ClamAV *actively* reporting when signatures are out date (like some Windows AV does). "Have you absolutely ruled out the possibility of someone having set up a transparent proxy on your border router(s)?" I guess I wouldn't put it past Comcast/Xfinity to interpose a proxy, but if the proxy is transparent, how would one detect it? And would a proxy once in a while be over an hour out of date? Maybe nobody in *this* part of the Boston area uses ClamAV, but Boston is not exactly Ulaanbaatar Mongolia (an actual Cloudflare mirror!). On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:52:19 +1100 "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschm...@acm.org> wrote: > On 23/10/2018 16:17, Paul Kosinski wrote: > > Two observations: First, a smoothly working freshclam mechanism > > shouldn't require workarounds. > Well, yes, but it works smoothly for a very large number of people, > myself included. > > > And I suspect many ClamAV users > > wouldn't be able to deal with workarounds like this. > This I disagree with - if they are bright enough to go looking for > something like ClamAV then they'd be able to handle the trivial task > of adding a line to a crontab file. > > > Second, any time freshclam fails due to an out-of-sync problem, > > there has been a useless load on the mirrors (although I suppose > > using cdiffs would significantly reduce the useless data transfer). > > Plus there is useless load on the client machine and its LAN. > There is a load only on the mirrors you are accessing, the rest of > them keep doing their job. > > Have you absolutely ruled out the possibility of someone having set > up a transparent proxy on your border router(s)? > > Cheers, > Gary B-) > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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
