Hello Damian Menscher,
sorry for the late reply
This points me to random mirrors around the world. I'd have expected to
resolve to db.us.clamav.net, and get mirrors within the US. Everything
still works, but I wanted to report it since it should probably be
fixed. Or is this something I
Damian Menscher wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
What do you get when you do host database.clamav.net ?
Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location?
Actually, for database.clamav.net,
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
What do you get when you do host database.clamav.net ?
Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location?
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 4:35 pm, Damian Menscher wrote:
The primary reason database.clamav.net was split into several regional
zones was to avoid gigantic DNS reply, which would require TCP instead
of UDP. Instead of returning all mirror IP addressess, it returns only
several addressess
My guess is that it's based on split DNS - multiple views, so you get
different answers depending on where (in IP address space) you're asking the
question from.
You are right.
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
I'm at a .edu in the middle of the US, but I see:
$ host database.clamav.net
database.clamav.net is an alias for db.local.clamav.net.
db.local.clamav.net is an alias for db.other.clamav.net.
This points me to random
Quoting Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
I'm at a .edu in the middle of the US, but I see:
$ host database.clamav.net
database.clamav.net is an alias for db.local.clamav.net.
db.local.clamav.net is an alias for
Damian Menscher wrote:
You missed the point.
What do you get when you do host database.clamav.net ?
Damian Menscher
Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location? I
was under the impression that no, it wouldn't and you can choose to use
the regional zones if you so desire,
Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
What do you get when you do host database.clamav.net ?
Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location?
Actually, for database.clamav.net, the answer is yes.
Or to be specific, based on your IP address.
It's an effort to balance mirror
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
Ryan Moore wrote:
Damian Menscher wrote:
What do you get when you do host database.clamav.net ?
Yea, doh. Is the DNS supposed to return a RR based on your location?
Actually, for database.clamav.net, the answer is yes.
Or to be specific,
Damian Menscher wrote:
I'm at a .edu in the middle of the US, but I see:
$ host database.clamav.net
database.clamav.net is an alias for db.local.clamav.net.
db.local.clamav.net is an alias for db.other.clamav.net.
This points me to random mirrors around the world. I'd have expected to
resolve to
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