Luca, On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Luca Gibelli wrote:
> Hello G.W., > > > My freshclam logs say that the mirror in Oxford, England has failed to > > supply ClamAV database updates since about November 6th. According to > > that's not true. My impression is that the OP is correct. Unfortunately I haven't kept all the evidence to back this up (though I guess the freshclam log might reveal enough) What I've been seeing is the expected behaviour for a broken mirror, namely - repeated failures from that IP (80.82.245.8), and eventually (after several days?) it will get 'blacklisted' by freshclam. Some time later we start trying it again, and - guess what? > wget clamav.public-internet.co.uk/daily.cvd gives me the CVD from > November 22nd. Odd, that works for me too. Which is strange, because freshclam here really isn't happy with the IP (see below) The last time I successfully downloaded from it (and there have been a *lot* of failures since) was ClamAV update process started at Mon Nov 19 22:56:00 2007 Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 300 Software version from DNS: 0.91.2 main.cvd version from DNS: 44 main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) daily.cvd version from DNS: 4848 Retrieving http://db.uk.clamav.net/daily-4847.cdiff Trying to download http://db.uk.clamav.net/daily-4847.cdiff (IP: 80.82.245.8) Downloading daily-4847.cdiff [100%] cdiff_apply: Parsed 8 lines and executed 8 commands Retrieving http://db.uk.clamav.net/daily-4848.cdiff Trying to download http://db.uk.clamav.net/daily-4848.cdiff (IP: 80.82.245.8) Downloading daily-4848.cdiff [100%] cdiff_apply: Parsed 28 lines and executed 28 commands Removing backup directory ./clamav-c5c1a27106f480c26a0a6a12b91074a8 daily.inc updated (version: 4848, sigs: 36392, f-level: 21, builder: sven) Database updated (169555 signatures) from db.uk.clamav.net (IP: 80.82.245.8) > > the database is about 9.6 days old as I write, but the problem goes > > back far longer than that. See for example: > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=80.82.245.8+clamav > > you can find similar matches for almost every mirror, because every > mirror has problems from time to time. > > > Is there something someone could do to deal with the unreliability of > > this mirror? If it can't be fixed I suggest removing it from the DNS. > > I usually give them about 1 week to fix the problem and then temporarily > remove them from the round robin (that means you should see it disappear > very soon). > If the problem is not fixed after 1 month, the mirror is dropped. > > I'd like to remark that freshclam is not affected by broken mirrors and > can always download the latest CVD as long as at least one of the > mirrors in the RR is working correctly. This time I definitely have to disagree with you. The following freshclam log show it trying the same IP six times, then giving up completely. So, for my money, we have both a broken mirror and a bug (ok, less than desirable behaviour ;-) ... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:56:00 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:56:28 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:56:55 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Giving up on db.uk.clamav.net... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:57:18 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:57:45 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sun Dec 2 22:58:13 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4970.cdiff from database.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Giving up on database.clamav.net... > Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in > freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem > for possible reasons. And here's an older one from a week or so ago, which shows it giving up on that IP after five attempts, blacklisting it, and successfully trying another one. > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:57:01 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] > [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:57:28 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] > [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:57:56 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from db.uk.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] > [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Giving up on db.uk.clamav.net... > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:58:18 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > Downloading daily.cvd [ 0%] > [...] > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > WARNING: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized. > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:58:46 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > ERROR: getfile: daily-4886.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-4886.cdiff from database.clamav.net > WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd > ERROR: getfile: Unknown response from remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8) > ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net > Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 23 23:58:51 2007 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven) > Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to previous errors) > Trying host database.clamav.net (163.1.3.8)... > Downloading daily-4886.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4886.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4887.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4887.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4888.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4888.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4889.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4889.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4890.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4890.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4891.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4891.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4892.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4892.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4893.cdiff [100%] > Downloading daily-4893.cdiff [100%] > daily.inc updated (version: 4893, sigs: 37101, f-level: 21, builder: ccordes) > Database updated (170264 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 163.1.3.8) Regards, Richard Hall _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
