RE: Anyone have problems with aanval?

[Our World Is Here <info () lucretia ca>]

I too have (and still use) aanval, I do not notice this type of
activity/anomaly.   Yes this option is turned off.

Plain and simple your config is whacked.  If your 'using' safe mode against
the wishes of the tool, you may be the culprit.

Cheers,

James Friesen, CIO

Lucretia Enterprises
"Our World Is Here..."
Info at lucretia dot ca
http://lucretia.ca


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:scheidell () secnap net]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 4:34 AM
> To: Nerijus Krukauskas; Snort Users
> Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Anyone have problems with aanval?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nerijus Krukauskas [mailto:nkrukauskas () gmail com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:01 AM
> > To: Snort Users
> > Cc: Michael Scheidell
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Anyone have problems with aanval?
> >
> >
> > On 27/01/06, Michael Scheidell <scheidell () secnap net> wrote:
> > > We traced a very large data transfer from the host we had running
> > > aanval to 82.165.229.52
> > >
> > > Interesting thing about that ip address:
> > > host www.aanval.com
> > > www.aanval.com is a nickname for aanval.com aanval.com
> has address
> > > 82.165.229.52 aanval.com mail is handled (pri=10) by
> mail.aanval.com
> >   82.165.229.51 is also known as oad.aanval.com. OAD stands for
> > 'Offender Analysis Database'. And default install of aanval console
> > sends lot's of data to that database. In aanval console go
> Aanval ->
> > System Options -> Processor Options -> uncheck the
> 'Offender Analysis
> > Database' option -> press 'Update Options' -> see how the
> traffic to
> > oad.aanval.com stops.
>
> 21GB?  7 hours?  Do the math, that will saturate two t1's for 7 hours.

And you noticed this AFTER SEVEN HOURS?  Wow.

Pretty slack network monitoring.

> And besides, we turned it off in system options the day we
> installed it.
> Did RTFM.
>
> Thanks for playing, next player?




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