The immediate crisis that led to Joel restricting the downloads to use freshclam was unexpected.
I'm working on a tool as fast as I'm able to replace the Perl-wget script for those that need to host private mirrors. It will have built-in features to minimize the possibility for abuse. I'll share it with the list as soon as I'm able. Best, Micah ________________________________ From: clamav-users <clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net> on behalf of Paul Smith via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:03:52 PM To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> Cc: Paul Smith <p...@pscs.co.uk> Subject: [clamav-users] Downloading CVD files manually.. 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
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