"Out of procedural curiosity, why would someone want to disable ipv6?"
Although our FIOS connection supports IPv6, our firewall/gateway complex, which I custom built from scratch 16+ years ago using iptables etc., doesn't. Since this firewall/gateway also does lots of inter-LAN routing and blocking (not to mention some source-based iproute2 stuff), it would have to be rewritten extensively. I don't have time to do this, especially given that there is still (after all these years) nothing critical that is IPv6 only. P.S. It would have been nice if the designers of IPv6 hadn't made it almost totally incompatible with IPv4 (unlike x64 vs x86). What if, when Ma Bell introduced direct distance dialing in the 1960s, they had made the new area-code scheme require that every customer who wanted to use area-codes get a new phone number with a totally different format, and replace their telephone handset? On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 14:37:59 +0000 "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > 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
