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Downloading updates always fails (automatically or manually)
nvshah


Joined: 05 May 2008
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Location: USA
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Hello,
I never got the internet updates got to work. It always gives me DNS error. Tried this on different machines and same issue everywhere. Sad


Here is the log from update window:

ClamAV update process started at Mon May 05 11:23:55 2008
WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.
Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK (IMS)
main.cvd is up to date (version: 46, sigs: 231834, f-level: 26, builder: sven)
Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): OK
daily.cld is up to date (version: 7033, sigs: 46863, f-level: 26, builder: ccordes)
LibClamAV Error: DNS Resolver: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net

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Thanks in advance.
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sherpya


Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 0
Location: Italy
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please check if some firewall is blocking freshclam.exe and clamwin.exe
a good article about firewalls:
https://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls https://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls

if you have a corporate firewall make sure that your client is able to make dns query and http downloads
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