Well the TXT based approach is to tell you (the users) when to update. It’s a
decent approach, and any change to that would be a good amount of work. Which
we’re not against, it’s just a baby step. It also means, (which may be a good
thing?) we’d have a departure between “people who keep ClamA
Yes, file synchronization is difficult. But we *started out* using the
provided (i.e., standard) freshclam tool to update our daily.cvd (etc.).
I only built our current non-standard tool (reading the file header)
when the Cloudflare mirrors started serving out-of-date file versions
which caused fre
Right Dennis. There will always be a delay, I can’t get it down to zero. But
I can minimize it. That being said, the infrastructure we are using today is a
ton more reliable than the previous mirror infrastructure.
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> On Oct 20, 2018, at 09:58, Dennis Peterson wrote:
>
Caching file systems do validate the requested file against a master file to see
if there has been a change. De-dupe caches do the same. It isn't instantaneous
but they also don't have to wait for the cache to refresh as they can deliver a
pass through request at the same time they're updating t
