Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-19 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:25:50 -0400 Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
 At 1:33 PM +0200 9/16/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
 On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:28:50 -0400 Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
   At 10:43 AM +0200 9/15/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
   OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'
  
   Mirror #9
  IP: 88.198.67.125
  Successes: 13
  Failures: 0
  Last access: Fri Aug 26 10:45:31 2011
  Ignore: No
  -
  Mirror #10
   IP: 65.19.179.67
  Successes: 24
  Failures: 5
  Last access: Tue Sep 13 10:45:48 2011
  Ignore: Yes
  
  Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP:
  88.198.67.125) is not considered a failure?  Is there something that I
  can add to freshclam.conf to make it so?

 A connection problem was considered a failure in the past but it was
 making more harm than good. In most cases the problem lies at the
 user's end (keep in mind we have ~2M different IPs downloading the
 database every day) and according to our tests and user reports with
 the current settings freshclam can more effectively deal with network
 errors.
 
 So... there is nothing that an end-user can set that will make the
 connection error be considered a failure?  I would need to go hack at
 the source code?

I've enabled short-time blacklisting of mirrors on connection errors in
clamav-devel, please give it a try (use the git version):

http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/sources/

 Does that Ignore: Yes entry automatically expire at some point or is
 that mirror now dead forever?

They will expire automatically. The mirrors ignored for a short time
should return to the pool after 30 minutes (or 6 hours in clamav-devel
after recent changes), and those ignored for a long term (due to severe
or repeating issues) should get cleared after 3 days.

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-17 Thread Dan

At 1:33 PM +0200 9/16/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:28:50 -0400 Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
  At 10:43 AM +0200 9/15/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
  OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'
 
  Mirror #9

 IP: 88.198.67.125
 Successes: 13
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Fri Aug 26 10:45:31 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #10

  IP: 65.19.179.67

 Successes: 24
 Failures: 5
 Last access: Tue Sep 13 10:45:48 2011
 Ignore: Yes

 

 Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP:
 88.198.67.125) is not considered a failure?  Is there something that I
 can add to freshclam.conf to make it so?


A connection problem was considered a failure in the past but it was 
making more harm than good. In most cases the problem lies at the 
user's end (keep in mind we have ~2M different IPs downloading the 
database every day) and according to our tests and user reports with 
the current settings freshclam can more effectively deal with 
network errors.


So... there is nothing that an end-user can set that will make the 
connection error be considered a failure?  I would need to go hack at 
the source code?


Does that Ignore: Yes entry automatically expire at some point or 
is that mirror now dead forever?


I see that all but one of the mirrors marked as Ignore: Yes work 
fine (well, at least they respond to http://ip, which .125 does not). 
Is there a command I can throw at Clam that will reset that flag? 
Doesn't look like mirrors.dat is directly editable.


How many connection failures are required before a mirror is taken 
out of rotation?


Thu Sep 15 22:05:35 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 08:03:05 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 10:03:06 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 11:03:08 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 14:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 14:42:04 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 16:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 17:03:07 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 18:03:07 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 19:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 20:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 21:03:06 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Fri Sep 16 22:03:06 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 01:03:06 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 02:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 03:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 04:03:09 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 05:03:08 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 06:03:08 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 07:03:08 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 08:03:06 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Sat Sep 17 10:03:07 2011 - Can't connect to port 80 of host 
db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)


That's a total of 0 successes over the past few days for that mirror.

Thanks,
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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-16 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:38:40 -0700 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

[...]

 Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
 Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
 Database updated (1038850 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
 88.198.67.125)
 Database updated (1038850 signatures) from 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125)
 Database updated (1039253 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
 88.198.67.125)
 
 For all but 1 of the 21 of the Can't connects it immediately checked and
 connected and updated from another mirror, but the next update went right
 back to .125 in all but 2 cases.   One Can't connect was followed by a
 second Can't connect.

OK, so that's the expected behavior.

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-16 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:28:27 -0400 Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
 At 10:42 PM -0700 9/14/2011, Al Varnell wrote:
 Against all odds I've had three updates in the last 24 and two of them
 have
 been from old .125
 
 Not so lucky; here every freshclam run that has touched .125 includes a
 failure still.  My latest:
 
 ClamAV update process started at Thu Sep 15 12:16:56 2011
 Using IPv6 aware code
 Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
 TTL: 900
 Software version from DNS: 0.97.2
 main.cvd version from DNS: 53
 main.cvd is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder:
 sven)
 daily.cvd version from DNS: 13620
 daily.cld is up to date (version: 13620, sigs: 193015, f-level: 60,
 builder: acab)
 safebrowsing.cvd version from DNS: 32299
 Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/safebrowsing-32299.cdiff
 Ignoring mirror 65.19.179.67 (due to previous errors)
 nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
 Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
 Ignoring mirror 65.19.179.67 (due to previous errors)
 Trying host database.clamav.net (207.57.106.31)...
 Trying to download http://database.clamav.net/safebrowsing-32299.cdiff
 (IP: 207.57.106.31)
 Downloading safebrowsing-32299.cdiff [100%]
 cdiff_apply: Parsed 56039 lines and executed 55991 commands
 Loading signatures from safebrowsing.cld
 Properly loaded 723320 signatures from new safebrowsing.cld
 safebrowsing.cld updated (version: 32299, sigs: 723320, f-level: 60,
 builder: google)
 Querying safebrowsing.32299.61.1.0.207.57.106.31.ping.clamav.net
 bytecode.cvd version from DNS: 144
 bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 144, sigs: 41, f-level: 60,
 builder: edwin)
 Database updated (1762590 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP:
 207.57.106.31)

This looks good, it properly switched to another mirror and successfully
updated the database.

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-16 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:28:50 -0400 Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
 At 10:43 AM +0200 9/15/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
 OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'
 
 Mirror #9
 IP: 88.198.67.125
 Successes: 13
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Fri Aug 26 10:45:31 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #10
 IP: 65.19.179.67
 Successes: 24
 Failures: 5
 Last access: Tue Sep 13 10:45:48 2011
 Ignore: Yes
 
 
 Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP:
 88.198.67.125) is not considered a failure?  Is there something that I
 can add to freshclam.conf to make it so?

A connection problem was considered a failure in the past but it was
making more harm than good. In most cases the problem lies at the user's
end (keep in mind we have ~2M different IPs downloading the database
every day) and according to our tests and user reports with the current
settings freshclam can more effectively deal with network errors.

Regards,

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:42:53 -0700 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

 Against all odds I've had three updates in the last 24 and two of them have
 been from old .125, so I reserve the right to revisit the other part of the
 issue in a few days after I have some statistics on how often it gets used
 on the first attempt.

Hey Al,

please run 'freshclam -v' and look for this line:

Using IPv6 aware code

If it's not there, then most likely freshclam is using the older
networking code, which does not randomize IP addresses on its own but
only relies on the DNS.

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Al Varnell
On 9/15/11 1:30 AM, Tomasz Kojm tk...@clamav.net wrote:

 Hey Al,
 
 please run 'freshclam -v' and look for this line:
 
 Using IPv6 aware code
 
 If it's not there, then most likely freshclam is using the older
 networking code, which does not randomize IP addresses on its own but
 only relies on the DNS.
 
Here it is:
Current working dir is /usr/local/clamXav/share/clamav
Max retries == 3
ClamAV update process started at Thu Sep 15 01:37:17 2011
Using IPv6 aware code 
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 224
Software version from DNS: 0.97.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 53
main.cld is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder:
sven)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 13619
Retrieving http://db.US.clamav.net/daily-13618.cdiff
Trying to download http://db.US.clamav.net/daily-13618.cdiff (IP:
207.57.106.31)
Downloading daily-13618.cdiff [100%]
cdiff_apply: Parsed 17 lines and executed 17 commands
Retrieving http://db.US.clamav.net/daily-13619.cdiff
Trying to download http://db.US.clamav.net/daily-13619.cdiff (IP:
207.57.106.31)
Downloading daily-13619.cdiff [100%]
cdiff_apply: Parsed 16 lines and executed 16 commands
Loading signatures from daily.cld
Properly loaded 193008 signatures from new daily.cld
daily.cld updated (version: 13619, sigs: 193008, f-level: 60, builder:
jesler)
Querying daily.13619.62.1.0.207.57.106.31.ping.clamav.net
bytecode.cvd version from DNS: 144
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 144, sigs: 41, f-level: 60, builder:
edwin)
Database updated (1039263 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
207.57.106.31)

Looks to be OK.


-Al-
 
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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:41:29 -0700 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

 Looks to be OK.

OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Al Varnell
On 9/15/11 1:43 AM, Tomasz Kojm tk...@clamav.net wrote:

 OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'

Janets-iMac-G5:~ jvarnell$ sudo /usr/local/clamXav/bin/freshclam
--list-mirrors
Mirror #1
IP: 194.8.197.22
Successes: 12
Failures: 0
Last access: Tue Sep 13 15:45:14 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #2
IP: 69.12.162.28
Successes: 4
Failures: 1
Last access: Thu Sep  8 07:45:14 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #3
IP: 150.214.142.197
Successes: 6
Failures: 0
Last access: Wed Aug 24 07:45:08 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #4
IP: 69.163.100.14
Successes: 13
Failures: 0
Last access: Tue Sep 13 19:40:16 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #5
IP: 200.236.31.1
Successes: 8
Failures: 0
Last access: Thu Aug 25 15:45:11 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #6
IP: 155.98.64.87
Successes: 14
Failures: 0
Last access: Wed Sep  7 15:45:09 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #7
IP: 208.72.56.53
Successes: 7
Failures: 0
Last access: Sun Sep 11 07:45:04 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #8
IP: 194.186.47.19
Successes: 6
Failures: 0
Last access: Fri Sep  9 15:45:19 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #9
IP: 194.47.250.218
Successes: 31
Failures: 0
Last access: Sat Sep 10 15:47:31 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #10
IP: 168.143.19.95
Successes: 13
Failures: 0
Last access: Mon Sep  5 07:45:07 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #11
IP: 88.198.67.125
Successes: 10
Failures: 0
Last access: Wed Sep 14 15:46:40 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #12
IP: 207.57.106.31
Successes: 6
Failures: 0
Last access: Thu Sep 15 01:37:23 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #13
IP: 65.19.179.67
Successes: 8
Failures: 0
Last access: Sun Sep 11 15:47:38 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #14
IP: 64.246.134.219
Successes: 8
Failures: 0
Last access: Tue Sep 13 07:45:07 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #15
IP: 204.109.62.22
Successes: 5
Failures: 0
Last access: Thu Sep  8 15:45:17 2011
Ignore: No

Note: Mirror #11 had Successes: 1 until yesterday.


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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:11:16 -0700 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

[...]
 -
 Mirror #11
 IP: 88.198.67.125
 Successes: 10
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Wed Sep 14 15:46:40 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #12
 IP: 207.57.106.31
 Successes: 6
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Thu Sep 15 01:37:23 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #13
 IP: 65.19.179.67
 Successes: 8
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Sun Sep 11 15:47:38 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #14
 IP: 64.246.134.219
 Successes: 8
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Tue Sep 13 07:45:07 2011
 Ignore: No
 -
 Mirror #15
 IP: 204.109.62.22
 Successes: 5
 Failures: 0
 Last access: Thu Sep  8 15:45:17 2011
 Ignore: No
 
 Note: Mirror #11 had Successes: 1 until yesterday.

And that's the reason freshclam was choosing it as the first mirror all
the time. Freshclam tries to balance the load by preferring mirrors with
the lowest number of downloads. Then, when it fails to connect to such a
mirror, it should disable this load balancing and simply pick up a
random mirror in the next attempt. Could you check your logs to see if
that actually happened?

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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Dan

At 10:43 AM +0200 9/15/2011, Tomasz Kojm wrote:

OK, now please post the output of 'freshclam --list-mirrors'


Mirror #9
IP: 88.198.67.125
Successes: 13
Failures: 0
Last access: Fri Aug 26 10:45:31 2011
Ignore: No
-
Mirror #10
IP: 65.19.179.67
Successes: 24
Failures: 5
Last access: Tue Sep 13 10:45:48 2011
Ignore: Yes


Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 
88.198.67.125) is not considered a failure?  Is there something that 
I can add to freshclam.conf to make it so?


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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Dan

At 10:42 PM -0700 9/14/2011, Al Varnell wrote:

Against all odds I've had three updates in the last 24 and two of them have
been from old .125


Not so lucky; here every freshclam run that has touched .125 includes 
a failure still.  My latest:


ClamAV update process started at Thu Sep 15 12:16:56 2011
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 900
Software version from DNS: 0.97.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 53
main.cvd is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder: sven)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 13620
daily.cld is up to date (version: 13620, sigs: 193015, f-level: 60, 
builder: acab)

safebrowsing.cvd version from DNS: 32299
Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/safebrowsing-32299.cdiff
Ignoring mirror 65.19.179.67 (due to previous errors)
nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Ignoring mirror 65.19.179.67 (due to previous errors)
Trying host database.clamav.net (207.57.106.31)...
Trying to download 
http://database.clamav.net/safebrowsing-32299.cdiff (IP: 
207.57.106.31)

Downloading safebrowsing-32299.cdiff [100%]
cdiff_apply: Parsed 56039 lines and executed 55991 commands
Loading signatures from safebrowsing.cld
Properly loaded 723320 signatures from new safebrowsing.cld
safebrowsing.cld updated (version: 32299, sigs: 723320, f-level: 60, 
builder: google)

Querying safebrowsing.32299.61.1.0.207.57.106.31.ping.clamav.net
bytecode.cvd version from DNS: 144
bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 144, sigs: 41, f-level: 60, 
builder: edwin)
Database updated (1762590 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 
207.57.106.31)


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Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue-Solved

2011-09-15 Thread Al Varnell
On 9/15/11 5:19 AM, Tomasz Kojm tk...@clamav.net wrote:

 And that's the reason freshclam was choosing it as the first mirror all
 the time. Freshclam tries to balance the load by preferring mirrors with
 the lowest number of downloads. Then, when it fails to connect to such a
 mirror, it should disable this load balancing and simply pick up a
 random mirror in the next attempt. Could you check your logs to see if
 that actually happened?

Here are the results of trying .125 over the same period, (Aug 29 to Sep
14).  There were 42 attempted updates, 12 were already up-to-dates and 21 of
30 updates started with a 88.198.67.125 failure.

Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1038850 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1038850 signatures) from 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1039253 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
88.198.67.125)

For all but 1 of the 21 of the Can't connects it immediately checked and
connected and updated from another mirror, but the next update went right
back to .125 in all but 2 cases.   One Can't connect was followed by a
second Can't connect.


-Al-
 
-- 
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA



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