> On Oct 22, 2021, at 14:16, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:27:46 +0000 > "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:55, 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? >> >> It does. No need to do an extra check. > > > Since checking the DNS TXT record costs almost nothing (and is UDP), I figure > I can do it more often than running freshclam without ever risking triggering > Cloudflare's bandwidth limits. And, although I currently do it only once per > hour, if there ever was something like a SANS Threat Level RED, I could up > the frequency to get the latest sigs ASAP. > >
DNS is unrestricted. That’s why I am saying it’s unnecessary. The restrictions are on the files themselves. _______________________________________________ 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
