
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">If I run freshclam as a non-privileged user, it runs fine with no warnings or error messages. Here’s the last line of the response:</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Database updated (6622193 signatures) from </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (IP: 104.16.188.138)</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">But, if I run sudo freshclam it fails with numerous errors, some of which are shown below. </span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">What do I need to do to fix this?</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">WARNING: Can't query </span><a href="http://current.cvd.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">current.cvd.clamav.net</a><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">If-Modified-Since: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:38:10 GMT</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Reading CVD header (main.cvd): nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=6 errno=64: Host is down</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Can't connect to port 80 of host </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (IP: 104.16.186.138)</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=6 errno=64: Host is down</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Can't connect to port 80 of host </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (IP: 104.16.188.138)</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Trying host </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (104.16.187.138)...</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=6 errno=64: Host is down</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Can't connect to port 80 of host </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (IP: 104.16.187.138)</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Trying host </span><a href="http://db.TH.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">db.TH.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (104.16.189.138)...</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=6 errno=64: Host is down</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">WARNING: Can't read main.cvd header from </span><a href="http://database.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">database.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> (IP: )</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Giving up on </span><a href="http://database.clamav.net" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">database.clamav.net</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">...</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /opt/local/etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check </span><a href="https://www.clamav.net/documents/official-mirror-faq" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">https://www.clamav.net/documents/official-mirror-faq</a><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> for possible reasons.</span></body></html>