Sean McGlynn wrote: > Hello, > > After changing our DNS services from Netware to OES Linux/BIND, freshclam > stopped getting updates. > > When we run freshclam we get: > > WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net and > WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. > Connecting via Our_proxy_server_IP > Reading CVD header (main.cvd): ERROR: Unknown response from remote server > WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from db.us.rr.clamav.net (IP: > Our_proxy_server_IP) > > Using nslookup on our proxy server (which is Netware 6.5) I get valid > responses for both current.cvd.clamav.net and db.us.clamav.net. > > Our firewall log is showing the proxy server attempting to contact our > internal DNS server at the times freshclam is running, so it appears the > proxy server is trying to resolve the names via our internal DNS server > rather than our external (Internet) DNS servers. resolv.cfg has our internal > DNS server first in the list, but that has always been. > > Can anyone suggest a resolution? > > Thank you. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > I think you need to look at your internal DNS server and see if it's doing the 'right thing'. Use DIG to query that dns server directly.
Any chance the internal DNS is not allowed to do recursive queries for your clamav host? _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
