clam-update consistently logging failures

A linode, running a "plain vanilla" debian Lenny have clam-update logging a network failure every day. Log is below.

I checked the FAQ but cannot find nothing useful. Mirrors in /etc/clamav/freshclam.com starts as follows and ends with clamav.gencore.org (should be the automatic list).

DatabaseMirror db.uk.ipv6.clamav.net
DatabaseMirror db.uk.clamav.net
DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net

Any hint is appreciated, I think it's something evident, but it seems I cannot find it. Thank you!

WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
   WARNING: Local version: 0.97.6 Recommended version: 0.97.7
   DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
   main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
   WARNING: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from clamav.gencore.org
   WARNING: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from clamav.gencore.org
   WARNING: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from clamav.gencore.org
   WARNING: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from clamav.gencore.org
   ERROR: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from clamav.gencore.org
   WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
   ERROR: Can't get information about clamav.gencore.org: Name or service not known
   ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from clamav.gencore.org
   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.
   Received signal: wake up

2 Replies

Why Debian 5? It's no longer supported so that might be why. Try upgrading to Squeeze.

The debian Squeeze packages use this:

> # Use DNS to verify virus database version. Freshclam uses DNS TXT records

to verify database and software versions. With this directive you can change

the database verification domain.

WARNING: Do not touch it unless you're configuring freshclam to use your

own database verification domain.

Default: current.cvd.clamav.net

DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net

Uncomment the following line and replace XY with your country

code. See http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm for the full list.

You can use db.XY.ipv6.clamav.net for IPv6 connections.

DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net

database.clamav.net is a round-robin record which points to our most

reliable mirrors. It's used as a fall back in case db.XY.clamav.net is

not working. DO NOT TOUCH the following line unless you know what you

are doing.

DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net

Try using those. Good luck

EDIT: If you need other options, I don't know where the GenCore one is defined. Try comparing with the ones in here: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … rig.tar.gz">http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.97.6+dfsg.orig.tar.gz

@Nuvini:

Why Debian 5? It's no longer supported so that might be why. Try upgrading to Squeeze.

The debian Squeeze packages use this:

Oh, sorry… yes, this is debian squeeze (I always mix names, to be clear is the current debian-stable).

I see your config file is really different, so at this point I suspect something (or me months ago, it could be) has changed the configuration file.

I just 'dpkg-reconfigure clamav-freshclam' and picked the defaults (and asked to rewrite the conf). Hopefully this will solve the problem, I'll post back if it's still not working.

Thank you for your time!

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