Out of procedural curiosity, why would someone want to disable ipv6? > On Mar 8, 2021, at 6:40 PM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > Hi there, > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Adam Bashore via clamav-users wrote: > >> I'm able to telnet to port 80 at db.local.clamav.net without issue. but I >> get a 403 forbidden when i try to download main.clv directly with wget (wget >> http://db.local.clamav.net/main.cvd) > > There's been a flurry of recent activity on the mailing list about the > abuse of ClamAV DB service, see the archives for more detail but I > think Joel's reply has answered this part. > >> I'm not convinced that it's a network issue. Can anyone explain why >> freshclam appears to be trying IPv6 even though the host only has an IPv4 >> address on eth1? > > I think it is a network issue. Most network software doesn't know > what interface it's going to use, it just asks the resolver for an > address. Your resolver provides an IPv6 address and freshclam tries > to use it. > > To build freshclam (and everything else) from source without IPv6 > support you could (at least theoretically, I've never tried it myself) > use the 'configure' option '--disable-ipv6'. Alternatively, which I'd > suggest is preferable, you can fix the network's IPv6 connectivity. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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