A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: > > > Antony Stone wrote: > >>On Friday 16 July 2004 8:35 pm, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: >> >> >> >>>I ran freshclam after getting this email from cron and it said I'm up to >>>date. Strange. >>> >>>ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host. >>>ERROR: Connection with database.clamav.net (IP: ???) failed. >>>ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host. >>>ERROR: Connection with database.clamav.net (IP: ???) failed. >>>ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host. >>>ERROR: Connection with database.clamav.net (IP: ???) failed. >>>run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/freshclam exited with return code 52 >>>Alvin >>> >>> >> >>Do you allow TCP port 53 requests from your nameserver? DNS is not >> always >>UDP-based, and the request/reply may be too big to fit in a UDP packet, >> in >>which case the server will use TCP instead. >> >>Regards, >> >>Antony. >> >> >> > Not sure. How would I go about checking? > Alvin >
nmap -sUT -p 53 <your_nameserver_ip> The result from "host a database.clamav.net" is only 395 bytes. It fits within a UDP packet. This looks more like a temporary lookup failure. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
