Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Jeff,
Reports like this is what is allowing us to find all these little quirks.
 Thanks.

Joel

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jeff Dell <jdell () activeworx com> wrote:

>  Interesting.. I didn’t know
>
>
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> http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
> <oinkcode>/snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz.md5
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>
>
> existed… Is there a link that doesn’t require an oinkcode? I can’t find
> one.
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>
> I also noticed that when you use this link it redirects to:
>
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> http://dl.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz.md5?oink_code=
> <oinkcode>
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>
> Is the original link going to go away?
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>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From:* Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2009 1:57 PM
> *To:* Jack Pepper
> *Cc:* snort-users () lists sourceforge net
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Snort-users] VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download
> Error?
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Jack Pepper <
> pepperjack () afferentsecurity com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Jeff Dell <jdell () activeworx com>:
>
> > The problem with once a week is what happens if you check on Monday at
> 8am
> > and the rules are updated on Monday at 8:05? You won't get any updates
> for 2
> > weeks. It would be really great to have something like a checksum that
> will
> > be available to see if there is a change in the rules file. This way
> users
> > know exactly when an update has occurred and even if they check it every
> 15
> > minutes they will be checking a tiny file as compared to 90megs+ file.
> Then
> > incorporating this into your favorite update utility will make updates
> very
> > fast most of the time as there won't be an update to the file, and would
> > severely lower the bandwidth that snort.org needs.
>
> Good idea.  If I could download the md5 using the oinkcode, it would
> be very nice.  Like this:
>
>
> http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/${OINK}/snortrules-2.8.tar.gz.md5<http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/$%7bOINK%7d/snortrules-2.8.tar.gz.md5>
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> Why would you need an oinkcode to look for the md5?  That's an unneeded
> step.
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