Correct. Wget is restricted. I wrote that in my email. So if you upgrade your version of freshclam/ClamAV, you should be good. Please see our blog post made back in the beginning of February.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2021, at 16:10, Paul Smith via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > OK, I've seen the rate limiting post, and that's understandable. > > We're running an (old) version of Freshclam every hour, and that's just > started failing with '403 Forbidden' errors. I guess we'll need to update to > a more recent version, which is OK, but not trivial in our case so may take > us a few days to implement properly. (It needs doing, so I'm not too bothered > by having to do it, but it'd be nice to have a workaround until that can be > done). > > So, I thought we'd run a private mirror using the instructions here: > https://www.clamav.net/documents/private-local-mirrors as then we wouldn't > have any issues with rate limiting, and would help by reducing the load on > your servers, etc. > > Unfortunately, those don't work any more, because "wget > http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd"; also fails with a 403 Forbidden error. > I've tried from multiple PCs on multiple networks, and it always fails. > > (Note that we're not getting a 429, so we're not being rate limited, just > blocked totally) > > So, your request in your rate limiting post of "2. Consider setting up a > local mirror on your network" is seemingly impossible to do. > > Is there any new trick to setting up a local mirror? > > (PS - also, on my PC, 'wget' fails, but Chrome can download the updates > absolutely fine, so it's not blocking my IP address, just the use of wget) > > > -- > > > Paul Smith Computer Services > Tel: 01484 855800 > Vat No: GB 685 6987 53 > > Sign up for news & updates at http://www.pscs.co.uk/go/subscribe > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/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 https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
