Hi Luca,

On Mon, 3 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.

Forgive me for insisting, but what I wrote is true.  That is, I have
told you what is in my logs.  Of course my logs don't tell me whether
the mirror has been supplying updates for others. :)

> wget clamav.public-internet.co.uk/daily.cvd gives me the CVD from
> November 22nd.

Indeed the mirror does supply daily.cvd correctly.  It's the cdiff
files that it doesn't seem to be supplying.  Try this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ged]$ wget 
http://clamav.public-internet.co.uk/daily-4980.cdiff
--11:26:16--  http://clamav.public-internet.co.uk/daily-4980.cdiff
           => `daily-4980.cdiff'
Resolving clamav.public-internet.co.uk... done.
Connecting to clamav.public-internet.co.uk[80.82.245.8]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
11:26:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.

> you can find similar matches for almost every mirror, because every
> mirror has problems from time to time.

In my logs I see persistent problems only with the mirror in Oxford:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# grep "\(sync\|found\|Can\'t\|Ignoring\|Unknown\)" 
mail.fclam
Jan 10 18:29:52 mail3 freshclam[16825]: Mirror 80.82.245.20 is not synchronized.
Mar 21 20:51:45 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 21 22:51:54 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 01:52:05 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 03:52:13 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 04:52:20 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 06:52:27 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 08:52:35 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 09:52:46 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 10:52:56 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 11:53:05 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 21:53:12 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 22 22:53:21 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 23 03:53:32 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 23 05:53:39 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Mar 23 07:53:46 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Jun 10 14:34:46 mail3 freshclam[1399]: Mirror 80.82.245.8 is not synchronized.
Jul 20 18:48:28 mail3 freshclam[23917]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Jul 20 19:49:17 mail3 freshclam[23917]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Aug 12 00:53:30 mail3 freshclam[23917]: getfile: daily-3929.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64)
Aug 19 17:53:56 mail3 freshclam[23917]: getfile: daily-3999.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 163.1.3.8)
Aug 19 17:53:56 mail3 freshclam[23917]: getfile: daily-3999.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Sep 10 02:05:27 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4220.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64)
Sep 10 04:05:27 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Sep 10 18:05:59 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4230.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64)
Sep 11 23:06:01 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Sep 12 04:06:02 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Oct 30 13:26:20 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4630.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64)
Nov  7 01:26:34 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4687.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov  7 19:26:36 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov  8 18:26:38 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov  8 19:26:38 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 11 15:26:46 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 12 18:26:48 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 13 07:26:49 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 13 08:26:49 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 13 17:26:50 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 13 22:26:51 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 14 21:26:55 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 16 01:26:59 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 16 21:27:01 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 16 23:27:01 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 17 01:27:02 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 17 16:27:03 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 21 00:27:10 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: Unknown response from remote 
server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 21 08:27:11 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 21 10:27:12 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 23 09:27:19 mail3 freshclam[15986]: Ignoring mirror 80.82.245.8 (due to 
previous errors)
Nov 25 07:27:23 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4908.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 26 10:27:25 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4919.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 29 09:27:36 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4949.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 29 11:27:37 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4951.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 30 14:27:40 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4961.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Nov 30 17:27:40 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4964.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)
Dec  1 16:27:43 mail3 freshclam[15986]: getfile: daily-4970.cdiff not found on 
remote server (IP: 80.82.245.8)

> 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.

Is that documented somewhere?

Is there something the community can do to help?  I can easily script
something to report such problems, say after some grace period.

> 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.

I understand.  I just like everything to work, and my logs to be tidy. :)

--

73,
Ged.
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