> Eliminate some unknowns - like maybe your DNS doesn't like big
> packets. Add this *temporarily* to your host table:
>
> 88.198.67.125 db.us.big.clamav.net
>
> And try again - and try with your browser, too. It should show you a
> web page indentifying the site you connected to and then after a
> short time you will be sent to clamav.net.
Running "host db.us.big.clamav.net" multiple times seems to reveal 15 servers
in the pool,
and the order changes each time; as I mentioned earlier, in my case at least,
the random
pool idea is working, even if over a 7-day period, 1/7 attempts to update
seemed to try
the IP in question... just the nature of randomness, I suppose. Also, how would
this
reveal anything more than what "telnet 88.198.67.125 80" getting a connection
refused
tells us?
However, I did just discover something bizarre and interesting:
> telnet 88.198.67.125 80
Trying 88.198.67.125...
telnet: connect to address 88.198.67.125: Connection refused
> host 88.198.67.125
125.67.198.88.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mx00.akxnet.de.
> host mx00.akxnet.de
mx00.akxnet.de has address 88.198.67.99
mx00.akxnet.de has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:140:4301::2
> telnet 88.198.67.99 80
Trying 88.198.67.99...
Connected to 88.198.67.99.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
Is it possible this is caused by a master DNS issue? Of course, I tried to see
the page
and didn't get much, but I'm not all that familiar with HTTP:
> curl -H "Host: db.us.clamav.net" 88.198.67.99
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /
on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.15 (Linux/SUSE) Server at db.us.clamav.net Port
80</address>
</body></html>
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Bryan Burke
IT Administrator
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
bbu...@eecs.utk.edu
(865) 974-4694
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