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Wesman26

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 70

Freshclam updates and whatnot [SOLVED]

So, like many, I have windows for video games, and nothing but video games, but you can't be too safe with windows so I want to scan my alternative drive with clamav, but I've running into a problem.

[wes@Arch ~]$ sudo freshclam -v
Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav
Max retries == 3
ClamAV update process started at Mon May 10 23:27:37 2010
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 800
Software version from DNS: 0.96
Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd
Ignoring mirror 194.186.47.19 (due to previous errors)
Whitelisting all blacklisted mirrors
WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Trying again in 5 secs...
ClamAV update process started at Mon May 10 23:27:47 2010
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 387
Software version from DNS: 0.96
Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd
Trying to download http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd (IP: 194.186.47.19)
WARNING: getfile: Unknown response from remote server (IP: 194.186.47.19)
WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Trying again in 5 secs...
ClamAV update process started at Mon May 10 23:27:57 2010
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 377
Software version from DNS: 0.96
Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd
Ignoring mirror 194.186.47.19 (due to previous errors)
Whitelisting all blacklisted mirrors
ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Giving up on database.clamav.net...
Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.

I'm not sure if it matters (because I think this command should load the module on its own, or at least that's how I understand it) but I have the iPv6 module disabled so I can browse the web and not waste time in chromium (I know I can configure firefox to not use iPv6 but ever since I tried chrome I can't use it).  I might be mistaken, I might be an idiot and having the module completely disabled might be something I should never do, etc... but regardless I felt like it was worth mentioning because the code says "Using IPv6 aware code".  At any rate if that's not the problem I'm curious what else it may be.  I've looked for mirrors.dat (as proposed by the clamav faq) but I didn't find anything.  Any suggestions?  Anything will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Wes

Last edited by Wesman26 (2010-05-13 05:05:59)

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Freshclam updates and whatnot [SOLVED]

Did you edit the config files as described in the Wiki?

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Wesman26

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 70

Re: Freshclam updates and whatnot [SOLVED]

Did you edit the config files as described in the Wiki?

Verily, save for the "Server Setup" portion, as I'm not running it as a server (as far as I know).

Wesman26

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 70

Re: Freshclam updates and whatnot [SOLVED]

Nevermind, I tried again and apparently something went right, it could have been some internet connectivity issues I had the other day when I was trying to update.  Thank you.