Re: [Clamav-users] future freshclam and no DNS question

2004-09-12 Thread Lionel Bouton
Christopher X. Candreva wrote the following on 09/11/2004 03:34 PM : If public DNS isn't allowed, you aren't going to be able to look up the IP addresses associated with the database mirrors, so http isn't going to work either. In fact, without DNS, you don't really have an Internet connection.

Re: [Clamav-users] future freshclam and no DNS question

2004-09-11 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Lionel Bouton wrote: > IIRC future freshclam will use DNS to fetch the latest sig version but will > fall back to HTTP HEAD requests if DNS doesn't work. Am I right ? > If not, as public DNS isn't allowed, I'll have to hack around more... :-( If public DNS isn't allowed, you

Re: [Clamav-users] future freshclam and no DNS question

2004-09-11 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:51:09 +0200 Lionel Bouton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC future freshclam will use DNS to fetch the latest sig version but Right. > will fall back to HTTP HEAD requests if DNS doesn't work. Am I right ? freshclam doesn't use HEAD but GET with "Range: bytes=0-511" And

[Clamav-users] future freshclam and no DNS question

2004-09-11 Thread Lionel Bouton
Hi, I'll soon have to advise an antivirus to a customer for an internal web-based file exchange platform. I'd like to push clamav because I think it's the best solution for them minor one problem I have to solve. The intra network infrastructure is quite restrictive (security guys there use the