This one time, at band camp, Jim Popovitch said:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 22:54 +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > That was why I originally suggested a local http, but YMMV.
>
> I do like that idea. Let me ask a few questions:
>
> 1) If I use wget every half-hour to get
> http://db.local.clamav.net/daily.cvd will that be acceptable use
> (connection time wise)?
>
> 2) Should I just push that to each server via scp and then ssh in and
> HUP clamd? Or should I still let each server rely on freshclam's DNS
> queries for current.cvd.clamav.net which are handled locally by our DNS
> cache server, and then a local apache install for distribution?
>
> The reason for the second question is that I'm not quite clear on how
> the systems will know to fetch the updated daily.cvd if the wget fires
> after the systems determine there is an update
Run apache on one host, and set this up:
<VirtualHost localmirror.example.com:80>
DocumentRoot /var/lib/clamav/
(other options)
</VirtualHost>
The run freshclam on that machine, and repoint the other machine's
freshclam.conf to localmirror.example.com. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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