I’m fairly certain this was previously discussed. Might want to check the archives.
I have not run across any site yet that is IPv6 only, but I suspect users in Asia have. Sent from my iPad -Al- > On Jan 6, 2020, at 18:12, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > Even though I built the latest ClamAV (0.102.1) with the 'configure' > option "--disable-ipv6", freshclam tried using IPv6 addresses when it > failed to connect via IPv4 due to a firewall rule (which I now changed > to allow port 443 as well as port 80). > > This rule was part of hardening our mail server a bit by blocking most > outbound connections, so I had added explicit pass-thru for the > clamav.net IPv4 addresses -- previously only port 80, now also 443. > (And I had to allow these outbound connections because my previous > attempts at local mirroring collapsed with the switch to Cloudflare: > the CVD files on the BOS Cloudflare mirror seemed to be out of date a > lot, as discussed in my previous postings). > > > P.S. As far as I can tell, disallowing IPv6 everywhere within, in to > and out of our small LAN, does not block anything of importance. Does > anyone know of anything on the Internet that is IPv6 *only*, and is > important enough to justify spending weeks of work rebuilding our > firewall (not to mention reconfiguring everything else)? > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
