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Database mirrors

freshclam downloads the database from http://database.clamav.net. As of March 2004 we attempt to redirect our users to the closest pool of mirrors by looking at their ip source address when they try to resolve database.clamav.net. Our DNS servers can answer with a CNAME to: db.europe.clamav.net, db.america.clamav.net, db.asia.clamav.net or db.other.clamav.net. Our advanced push-mirroring mechanism allows database maintainers to update all the mirrors in less than one minute ! Thanks to the help of many companies and organisations we have a few dozen of very fast and reliable mirrors:
Mirror IP Location Administrator
clamav.man.olsztyn.pl 213.184.16.3 Olsztyn, Robert d`Aystetten
Poland <dart*man.olsztyn.pl>
avmirror1.prod.rxgsys.com 64.74.124.90 USA Graham Wooden
<graham*rxgsys.com>
avmirror2.prod.rxgsys.com 207.201.202.73 USA Graham Wooden
<graham*rxgsys.com>
clamav.e-admin.de 212.162.12.159 Dusseldorf, Andreas Gietl
Germany <a.gietl*e-admin.de>
clamav.essentkabel.com 195.85.130.84 Netherlands Chris van Meerendonk
<mirror*essentkabel.com>
clamav.inet6.fr 62.210.153.201 France Lionel Bouton
62.210.153.202 <clamavdb*inet6.fr>
clamav.netopia.pt 193.126.14.29 Portugal Miguel Bettencourt Dias
<mbd*netopia.pt>
clamav.sonic.net 209.204.175.217 USA Kelsey Cummings
<kgc*sonic.net>
clamav.gossamer-threads.com 64.69.64.158 Canada Alex Krohn
<mirrors*gossamer-threads.com>
clamav.catt.com 64.18.100.4 USA Mike Cathey
<mirrors*catt.com>
clamav.antispam.or.id 202.134.0.71 Indonesia Fajar Nugraha
<fajar*telkom.co.id>
clamav-du.viaverio.com 199.239.233.95 USA Scott Wiersdorf
<scott*perlcode.org>
clamav-sj.viaverio.com 128.121.60.235 USA Scott Wiersdorf
<scott*perlcode.org>
clamavdb.heanet.ie 193.1.219.100 Ireland Colm MacCarthaigh
<mirrors*heanet.ie>
clamav.crysys.hu 152.66.249.132 Hungary Bencsath Boldizsar
<boldi*mail2004.crysys.hit.bme.hu>
clamav.rockriver.net 209.94.36.5 Illinois, USA Thomas D. Harker
<tom*rockriver.net>
clamav.xmundo.net 200.68.106.40 Argentina Cristian Daniel Merz
<mirrors*xmundo.net>
clamav.infotex.com 66.139.73.146 Texas, USA Matthew Jonkman
<matt*infotex.com>
Mirror IP Location Administrator
clamav.santafesolutions.com 196.40.71.226 Costa Rica Gregory Cascante Avilés
<gregory*emailcr.com>
clamav.mirror.transip.nl 80.69.67.3 The Netherlands Walter Hop
<walter*transip.nl>
clamavdb.osj.net 218.44.253.75 Japan Masaki Ikeda
<masaki*orange.co.jp>
clamav.ialfa.net 210.22.201.152 People's Republic Alfa Shen
of China <alfa*ialfa.net>
clamavdb.ikk.sztaki.hu 193.225.86.3 Hungary Gabor Kiss
<kissg*debella.ikk.sztaki.hu>
clamav.mirrors.nks.net 24.73.112.74 Florida, USA James Neal
<clam-admin*nks.net>
clamav.kratern.se 212.31.160.239 Sweden Emil Ljungdahl
<emil*kratern.se>
clamav.dif.dk 193.138.115.108 Denmark Jesper Juhl
<juhl*dif.dk>
clamav.dbplc.com 217.154.108.81 United Kingdom Simon Pither
<simon*digitalbrain.com>
clamav.unet.brandeis.edu 129.64.99.170 USA Rich Graves
<rcgraves*brandeis.edu>
clamav.im1.net 65.77.42.207 Florida, US Dmitri Pavlenkov
<dmitri*im1.com>
clamav.elektrotech-ker.hu 80.95.80.7 Hungary Bodrogi Zsolt
<odin*szilank.hu>
clamav.stockingshq.com 212.113.16.74 United Kingdom <dave*stockingshq.com>
clamav.acnova.com 203.81.40.167 Singapore Lennard Seah
<myself*lennardseah.com>
clamdb.prolocation.net 213.73.255.243 The Netherlands Raymond Dijkxhoorn
<raymond*prolocation.net>
clamav.xyxx.com 65.75.154.69 San Francisco/Palo Alto Myron Davis
California, USA <myrond*xyxx.com>
clamav.walkertek.com 38.136.139.7 USA Stephen Walker
<swalker*walkertek.com>
clamav.mirror.cygnal.ca 24.244.193.21 Burlington, Rafal Rzeczkowski
24.244.193.22 Ontario, Canada <mirrors*cygnal.ca>
clamav.mirrors.ilisys.com.au 203.202.10.60 Australia David Wilcox
<mirrors*ilisys.com.au>
clamav.securityminded.net 209.8.40.140 Ashburn, USA Thomas Petersen
<tomp*securityminded.net>
clamav.island.net.au 203.28.142.36 Sydney Hugh Blandford
Australia <hugh*island.net.au>
clamav.iol.cz 194.228.2.38 Czech Republic Pavel Urban
<pavel.urban*imaginet.cz>
clamav.securitywonks.net 66.197.159.213 USA D. Raghu Veer
<clamav*zyserver.net>
clamav.pcn.de 213.203.254.4 Hamburg, Karsten Gessner
Germany <karsten*pcn.de>
Mirror IP Location Administrator
clamav.enderunix.org 193.140.143.23 Turkey Omer Faruk Sen
<ofsen*enderunix.org>
clamav.ovh.net 213.186.33.38 France Germain Masse
213.186.33.37 <germain.masse*ovh.net>
clamav.spod.org 195.92.99.99 United Kingdom Ian Kirk
<blob*blob.co.uk>
clamav.intercom.net.ua 195.13.43.28 Ukraine Artie Missirov
<kadjy*intercom.net.ua>
clamav.mirror.vutbr.cz 147.229.3.16 Czech Republic Tomas Kreuzwieser
<mirror-adm*cis.vutbr.cz>
database.clamav.ps.pl 212.14.28.36 Poland Adam Popik
<adam*popik.pl>
clamav.fx-services.com 69.93.108.98 USA Robin Vley
<robin*fx-services.com>
clamav.univ-nantes.fr 193.52.101.131 France Yann Dupont
<yann.dupont*univ-nantes.fr>
clamav.blackroute.net 64.246.44.108 Texas, USA Maarten Van Horenbeeck
<maarten*daemon.be>
There is a DatabaseMirror directive in the config file, which specifies the main database server freshclam will attempt to connect to (up to MaxAttempts times) in order to check or update the database. If there are more DatabaseMirror lines specified it will switch automatically to the next one if a connection with the previous mirror failed for some reason.


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Next: Usage Up: Installation Previous: freshclam: Setting up auto-updating   Contents
Tomasz Kojm 2004-06-03