Bug 129507

Summary:	clamav needs bind-tools but doesn't depend on it
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brian ODonnell <patternspider>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Antivirus Team <antivirus>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brian ODonnell 2006-04-10 11:33:00 UTC

Apparently, without the "host" command, which is part of the bind-tools package, freshclam cannot query current.cvd.clamav.net

This is the error it reports:
ERROR: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net
WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.

Emerging bind-tools fixes the problem. Shouldn't bind-tools be a dependency of clamav?

Comment 1 Brian ODonnell 2006-04-11 08:40:14 UTC

Nevermind. I was mistaken. Emerging bind-tools is not a fix.

Comment 2 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-11 09:13:58 UTC

Indeed, clamav doesn't use "host" command to resolve - see freshclam/dns.c in clamav tarball