For those that did not know, the ClamAV team released a definition
update that disabled the older versions of clamav (0.94 and prior I
believe). They did this because the older version had a large security
hole. They made this announcement several months ago.
Anyway, once everyone realized they were no longer receiving mail they
decided to update (note that 0.95.0-1.3.26 was released April 1 of
2009.....) and buried the 3M pipe the server is on. When I logged in to
see what was going on, there were 277 people downloading the clamav
package. This stayed pretty steady for 12 hours or so. Now, 12 hours
later, there are still ~74 people downloading packages. I've had people
emailing me all day and calling my office as well
Due to this, I have taken the videos off-line for a couple days to focus
bandwidth for those that need to update their packages. If you try and
access the video site, you will get a static HTML page explaining this
and why. After everyone performs their belated updates, I will move them
back online.
I will be taking some steps and reorganizing some things in the days to
come to hopefully avoid this issue should it arrive again in the future.
I have not decided what I will do just yet, but something will be done.
One thing suggested was mirrors for the packages. If you have some
bandwidth to spare, send me a message off-list if you're interested in
hosting a mirror of the current packages. If enough people donate some
bandwidth for this, this may be something I seriously consider (would
most likely be a DNS round-robin type thing). Another thing I may do is
leverage sourceforge or other large repository to host the files. I'm
kicking a few ideas around - I'll sleep on them a night or two and come
up with something.
Anyhow, that's where we are at and why the site was slow today.
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