In recent days, users may have received notification emails about freshclam failing to update, example:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: freshclam: Update failed
Date: 22 Feb 2013 11:15:35 -0000
From: anonymous@2000fm.com
To: admin@2000fm.com
2013-02-22 22:12:02.818832500 ClamAV update process started at Fri Feb 22 22:12:02 2013
2013-02-22 22:12:02.819310500 main.cld is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
2013-02-22 22:12:34.144912500 nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
2013-02-22 22:12:34.144966500 Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 116.240.207.20)
2013-02-22 22:12:34.144986500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-02-22 22:13:04.691605500 nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs)
[snip]
2013-02-22 22:15:35.334297500 Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 116.240.207.20)
2013-02-22 22:15:35.334317500 ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
2013-02-22 22:15:35.334512500 Giving up on database.clamav.net...
2013-02-22 22:15:35.334536500 Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.
[Note: the warnings above may differ depending of the status of your server, this problem is not fixed by updating to latest clamav package]
This issue is the subject of a ticket in Bugzilla:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7353The Devs are working towards a resolution, in the meantime, temporary workarounds are provided, i.e. comment #45
Please follow up in the Tracker.