On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, at 10:05 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:

> If I 'dig', I get:
>
>       $ dig database.clamav.net
>       ;database.clamav.net.           IN      A
>       database.clamav.net.    60      IN      CNAME   
> database.clamav.net.cdn.cloudflare.net.
>       database.clamav.net.cdn.cloudflare.net. 300 IN A 104.18.203.90
>       database.clamav.net.cdn.cloudflare.net. 300 IN A 104.17.196.15
>
> suggesting that the IP addresses have a TTL of only 5 minutes! This 
> would seem to make it impractical to update my firewall rules often 
> enough. (Also, if I do repeated digs on this URL, I see the TTL 
> counting down -- and then recycling! Very strange.)
>

Yes, it's very much 5 minutes, and the reason you see it counting down is 
because your local resolver is only going to cache it for that maximum of five 
minutes. 

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