Hello, I am administering a Red Hat Enterprise 5 server and was running ClamAV 97.3 and upgraded to version 97.5. Prior to upgrading I removed the earlier Clam RPM completely.
The issues I'm having are as follows: The ClamAV installation on red hat is producing the following error when we run a freshclam command, which updates the virus databases: root@server clamav# freshclam ClamAV update process started at Fri Jun 22 08:04:54 2012 WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. WARNING: Can't get information about db.US.clamav.net: Temporary failure in name resolution WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from db.US.clamav.net Trying again in 5 secs... According to ClamAV FAQ's it wants to ensure the server can resolve TXT and to check resolv.conf: * I get this error when running freshclam: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode or ERROR: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net . What does it mean? * There is a problem with your DNS server. Please check the entries in /etc/resolv.conf and verify that you can resolve the TXT record manually: $ host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net If you can't, it means your network is broken. You'll be still able to download the updates, but you'll waste a lot of bandwidth checking for updates. After reviewing that information I ran the command successfully, see below: root@server clamav# host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net current.cvd.clamav.net descriptive text "0.97.5:54:15068:1340372274:1:63:39475:185" which is the same result I received on a server where the virus update is succeeding. server# host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net current.cvd.clamav.net descriptive text "0.97.5:54:15068:1340372274:1:63:39475:185" I reviewed SElinux logs and don't see anything being blocked. What is the recommended course of action? Thank you, Mario A. Reyes _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
