Re: Snort on web servers behind reverse proxies

[Tudor Panaitescu <TPanaitescu () colorcon com>]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the information. I took a look at snortunified.pm and I am a
little confused, please keep in mind that I haven't written a line of code
in over 12 years now so it is pretty hard for me to look at the code. Do
you have any hints for me regarding the usage ? I am using barnyard now for
logging to a mysql database + Base, can the software you recommended
replace barnyard ?

Thanks,
Tudor



                                                                           
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you will have to post process it. check out snortunified.pm for a
framework tat makes it easy.

Tudor Panaitescu wrote:
> Hi
>
> First of all I did some research and couldn't find anything about this,
so
> no flames please :-)
>
> Here is the story. We have some reverse proxies/application
> accelerators/etc. (let's call them reverse proxies for now) in front of
our
> web site. We don't control these reverse proxies and I am not sure if the
> provider has any IDS capabilities on those. I have snort (2.8.0.2)
> installed on the actual web servers but the only thing that I see in the
> alerts is the IP addresses of the reverse proxies, which is normal. Now,
> the reverse proxies, in their http requests to the web servers, they add
2
> entries in the headers: X-Forwarded-For: <origin's IP address> and
> True-Client-IP: <origin's IP address>. Is it a way to modify the rules to
> alert using  any of these IP addresses instead of the IP address(es) of
the
> reverse proxies ?
>
> Any help/idea would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks and all the best,
> Tudor
>
>
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