On 9/15/11 5:19 AM, "Tomasz Kojm" <tk...@clamav.net> wrote:
> And that's the reason freshclam was choosing it as the first mirror all > the time. Freshclam tries to balance the load by preferring mirrors with > the lowest number of downloads. Then, when it fails to connect to such a > mirror, it should disable this load balancing and simply pick up a > random mirror in the next attempt. Could you check your logs to see if > that actually happened? > Here are the results of trying .125 over the same period, (Aug 29 to Sep 14). There were 42 attempted updates, 12 were already up-to-dates and 21 of 30 updates started with a 88.198.67.125 failure. Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Database updated (1038850 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) Database updated (1038850 signatures) from 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125) Database updated (1039253 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125) For all but 1 of the 21 of the "Can't connect"s it immediately checked and connected and updated from another mirror, but the next update went right back to .125 in all but 2 cases. One "Can't connect" was followed by a second "Can't connect". -Al- -- Al Varnell Mountain View, CA _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml