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.


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