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Re: [Clamav-users] Problems connecting to freshclam servers
From: Alan Stern <stern_at_nospam>Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 16:43:42 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Brandon Perry wrote:
> This is what gets me:
>
> О╩© Can't connect to port 80 of host db.us.clamav.net (IP:
> 206.154.202.13)
> Trying host db.us.clamav.net (206.154.203.213)...
> Downloading daily-6363.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6364.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6365.cdiff [100%]
> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
> Can't connect to port 80 of host 206.154.203.213 (IP:
> 206.154.203.213)
>
> ----
>
> О╩© Can't connect to port 80 of host db.us.clamav.net (IP:
> 199.239.233.95)
> Trying host db.us.clamav.net (206.154.202.13)...
> Downloading daily-6371.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6372.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6373.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6374.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6375.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6376.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6377.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6378.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-6379.cdiff [100%]
> nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
> Can't connect to port 80 of host 206.154.202.13 (IP: 206.154.202.13)
> ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-6380.cdiff from
> db.us.clamav.net
>
>
> etc...
>
> Everytime you _do_ download any defs, it is from db.us.clamav.net.
It pretty much has to be. The only database address lines in my freshclam.conf file are: DatabaseMirror db.us.clamav.net DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net
and I'm located in the US so they both refer to the same thing.
> Possibly an ISP problem? Or router? What happens if you ping the places
> you can't connect to?
I doubt it is a network-related problem of the sort you mention. (Not that I have any real evidence; this is just an intuition.)
At any rate, I can't ping anything because pings are blocked on my campus network. Traceroute works, but in all the cases I tried it gets blocked before reaching the final destination.
Alan Stern
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