Re: disable spp_portscan2

[John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com>]

Erek, et al:

Looking at his syntax for eth0_ADDRESS, HOME_NET, and EXTERNAL_NET,
and wondering:

1) what it's intended to do;

2) will it work?


On or about Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:11:08PM -0500, Xue Wu posited:
> I have tried all the methods on the user list. None of them works for
> my snort. I installed snort1.9.0 on redhat-linux 8.0. Any idea about it?

<snip>
> ###################################################
> # Step #1: Set the network variables:
> #
> # You must change the following variables to reflect
> # your local network. The variable is currently 
> # setup for an RFC 1918 address space.
<snip>

> var eth0_ADDRESS localhost.localdomain
> var HOME_NET $eth0_ADDRESS
>
> var EXTERNAL_NET $HOME_NET

<snip>


Is this not using host names rather than an IP address?

If localhost.localdomain _is_ translated to 127.0.0.1, what effect does
that have on the rest...


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