On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:55:54 -0700 Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/21/2021 10:14 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: > > I've never seen a DNS age warning, but that might be because, for several > > years now, I only run freshclam when the DNS TXT record (which I check > > hourly) says there is a new signature available compared to a local file's > > version number (in its header). > > I thought freshclam did the DNS check itself. Why do it again before > running freshclam? Because a couple of years ago I was running a local mirror using full CVDs, but Cloudflare's BOS POP/server was often out of date compared to the claimed current CVD version. So I was trying to reduce bandwidth consumption by not directly downloading the whole CVD. Now I use freshclam directly on our 3 ClamAV systems, but I kept the DNS TXT check as it still reduces bandwidth a bit (compared to hourly freshclam runs) and also provides a nice summary of available vs installed DB files. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] 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
