Ip adresse of your update server (Squidguard)

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,
I’ve noticed since a few days that avast update itself trought direct ip adresses.

http://209.62.112.114/cgi-bin/iavs4stats.cgi
http://209.62.112.114/iavs4x/servers.def
http://209.62.112.114/iavs4x/servers.def.stamp
http://209.62.112.114/iavs4x/servers.def.vpu
http://209.62.112.114/iavs4x/servers.def.vpu.stamp

Is it possible to have a complet list of all your mirror ? Or force avast to use a fixed ip ?

I use an ipcop firewall with squidguard and the updates don’t work anymore since few days.

I’ve autorized syncer agent to connect and *.avast.com domain, but my urlfilter system don’t allow unkown ip

Best Regards

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That’s why half of the servers are now specified using the IP address, and half is still specified using the domain name.
That is, if your firewall blocks the IP addresses it should only take (on average) one retry per update to get to the server.

AFAIK avast tries for 10 times (10 retries) so it should work OK.

BTW the reason we replaced some of the domain names with IP addresses is to not be dependent on the local HOSTS file (and its possible hijacks).

Cheers
Vlk

3

Thanks for the explanations.
Regards

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Btw, the list of updating servers is in the file \Setup\servers.def (the url= fields).
However, the list is rather huge - and it is changing.