Re: Snort Glitch perhaps

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

Erek Adams wrote:

> If you are surfing into your ACID box and looking at alerts, and Snort
> just happens to sit on that same net....  Snort will see the pr0n keywords
> and it will alert on that....  So each time you view an alert, you will
> get an alert.  :-)
>
>  

I agree on using https to view ACID results, but I alwas run snort as:

snort ..... not host $HOSTNAME

That stops snort triggering on packets coming from itself.

Jason



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