Luca Gibelli wrote:

> This matter has been discussed _many_ times. In short:
> 
> - the TTL of current.cvd.clamav.net is 900 secs
> - if you run freshclam (with DNSDatabaseInfo) more often than 900 secs,
>   you just overload _your_ dns.

Hardly overload, but I take your point.

>   Calling freshclam when a new message from clamav-virusdb@
>   arrives is silly. 

OK, I'm beginning to realise that.  I *was* concerned about the potential 
overload of servers,
but I'd figured that the clamav-virusdb notification would take a while to 
propagate too,
thereby spreading the load. 
Anyway, thanks for the clarification.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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