Comment 6 for bug 292580

because it doesn't matter if I start the command manually or the daemon
will refresh, the error is the same... (I have disabled the daemon,
because there are not allways updates needed.)

On 02.Nov 2008 14:33, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Why are you doing this? As installed freshclam checks for updates every
> hour without you needing to do anything.
>
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> clamav-freshclam update dns problem
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292580
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> Status in “clamav” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: clamav-freshclam
>
> on Kubuntu 8.10 (newest from archive) it's not possible to update the clamav db with "sudo freshclam".
>
> it allways report, dns resolving don't work. But, with nslookup, dig and host it's possible to resolve the domain-names (like described in the FAQ of clamav.org). I don't have any idea to resolve this... maybe a permission-problem, but it's executed as root. Also the daemon has the same problem of clamav, not only the manual update.
>
> Any idea how to do more exactly debugging?
> thanks.
>
> exact output:
> ClamAV update process started at Sun Nov 2 13:02:14 2008
> WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net
> WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.
> Reading CVD header (main.cvd): WARNING: Can't get information about database.clamav.net: Name or service not known
> WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from database.clamav.net (IP: )
> Trying again in 5 secs...
>