On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:27:46 +0000 "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:55, Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/21/2021 10:14 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: > >> I've never seen a DNS age warning, but that might be because, for several > >> years now, I only run freshclam when the DNS TXT record (which I check > >> hourly) says there is a new signature available compared to a local file's > >> version number (in its header). > > > > I thought freshclam did the DNS check itself. Why do it again before > > running freshclam? > > It does. No need to do an extra check. Since checking the DNS TXT record costs almost nothing (and is UDP), I figure I can do it more often than running freshclam without ever risking triggering Cloudflare's bandwidth limits. And, although I currently do it only once per hour, if there ever was something like a SANS Threat Level RED, I could up the frequency to get the latest sigs ASAP. _______________________________________________ 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
