On 9/15/11 5:19 AM, "Tomasz Kojm" <tkojm@clam...> wrote:

> And that's the reason freshclam was choosing it as the first mirror all
> the time. Freshclam tries to balance the load by preferring mirrors with
> the lowest number of downloads. Then, when it fails to connect to such a
> mirror, it should disable this load balancing and simply pick up a
> random mirror in the next attempt. Could you check your logs to see if
> that actually happened?
>
Here are the results of trying .125 over the same period, (Aug 29 to Sep
14).  There were 42 attempted updates, 12 were already up-to-dates and 21 of
30 updates started with a 88.198.67.125 failure.

Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Can't connect to port 80 of host db.US.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1038850 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1038850 signatures) from 88.198.67.125 (IP: 88.198.67.125)
Database updated (1039253 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP:
88.198.67.125)

For all but 1 of the 21 of the "Can't connect"s it immediately checked and
connected and updated from another mirror, but the next update went right
back to .125 in all but 2 cases.   One "Can't connect" was followed by a
second "Can't connect".


-Al-

--
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA



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