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[clamav-users] Freshclam failing to get update
Hi,

Is there anything about ClamAV v0.97.3 that would mean it's suddenly unable
to fetch the daily updates via freshclam? I know it's an old version, but
this is on a very old box running Centos 4 so upgrading isn't practical at
the moment (for, you know, *reasons*).

Suddenly started seeing this whenever freshclam tries to run:

Feb 11 13:07:01 ptah freshclam[24470]: ClamAV update process started at Thu
Feb 11 13:07:01 2021
Feb 11 13:07:01 ptah freshclam[24470]: main.cvd is up to date (version: 59,
sigs: 4564902, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:da54)
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Trying host db.gb.clamav.net
(2606:4700::6810:db54)...
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:db54)
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: getpatch: Can't download
daily-26077.cdiff from db.gb.clamav.net
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:da54)
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Trying host db.gb.clamav.net
(2606:4700::6810:db54)...
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:db54)
Feb 11 13:07:07 ptah freshclam[24470]: getpatch: Can't download
daily-26077.cdiff from db.gb.clamav.net
Feb 11 13:07:14 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:15 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:db54)
Feb 11 13:07:15 ptah freshclam[24470]: Trying host db.gb.clamav.net
(2606:4700::6810:da54)...
Feb 11 13:07:15 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:15 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:da54)
Feb 11 13:07:15 ptah freshclam[24470]: getpatch: Can't download
daily-26077.cdiff from db.gb.clamav.net
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Incremental update failed, trying to
download daily.cvd
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:da54)
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Trying host db.gb.clamav.net
(2606:4700::6810:db54)...
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=4
errno=101: Network is unreachable
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't connect to port 80 of host
db.gb.clamav.net (IP: 2606:4700::6810:db54)
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Can't download daily.cvd from
db.gb.clamav.net
Feb 11 13:07:16 ptah freshclam[24470]: Trying again in 5 secs...

This started to happen yesterday after years of trouble free operation.
Nothing on my box's configuration has changed between freshclam working and
it not working.

Any pointers as to a possible cause would be most welcome.

Cheers
Simon
Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam failing to get update [ In reply to ]
Hi there,
41;344;0c

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Simon Banton via clamav-users wrote:

> Is there anything about ClamAV v0.97.3 that would mean it's suddenly unable
> to fetch the daily updates via freshclam? I know it's an old version, but
> this is on a very old box running Centos 4 so upgrading isn't practical at
> the moment (for, you know, *reasons*).

You need to upgrade.

All versions of ClamAV before 0.100 are now past End Of Life and obsolete.

You should also at least subscribe to the 'clamav-announce' mailing list,
where this was announced (yesterday).

--

73,
Ged.

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Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam failing to get update [ In reply to ]
Ah, OK, thanks.

S.

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:49, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 41;344;0c
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Simon Banton via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > Is there anything about ClamAV v0.97.3 that would mean it's suddenly
> unable
> > to fetch the daily updates via freshclam? I know it's an old version, but
> > this is on a very old box running Centos 4 so upgrading isn't practical
> at
> > the moment (for, you know, *reasons*).
>
> You need to upgrade.
>
> All versions of ClamAV before 0.100 are now past End Of Life and obsolete.
>
> You should also at least subscribe to the 'clamav-announce' mailing list,
> where this was announced (yesterday).
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam failing to get update [ In reply to ]
Everyone should upgrade to current. So many CVEs have been patched in the past couple of major versions. We’ve shut off older versions as it’s costing a fortune for us to keep feeding older versions of ClamAV, which download the daily.cvd in its entirety, once a second. (So many people do this! Stop!)

So, to show you how bad the problem is, last month, we transferred 9PB of traffic from our infrastructure just in updates. We’ve gotta cut that down. Besides, this is security software, you should upgrade it.

There are reasons we can’t cut off .100 and .101 yet, but as soon as we can, we’ll be shutting those off as well. So everyone, please upgrade.

> On Feb 11, 2021, at 8:58 AM, Simon Banton via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, OK, thanks.
>
> S.
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:49, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 41;344;0c
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Simon Banton via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > Is there anything about ClamAV v0.97.3 that would mean it's suddenly unable
> > to fetch the daily updates via freshclam? I know it's an old version, but
> > this is on a very old box running Centos 4 so upgrading isn't practical at
> > the moment (for, you know, *reasons*).
>
> You need to upgrade.
>
> All versions of ClamAV before 0.100 are now past End Of Life and obsolete.
>
> You should also at least subscribe to the 'clamav-announce' mailing list,
> where this was announced (yesterday).
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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>
>
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