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Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error?
From: Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:08:24 -0400
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM, <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:I spoke to our IT guys - sorry, This isn't possible. I also want to thank everyone for the great feedback so far. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Sethsec <sethsec () gmail com> wrote:It looks like you guys are redirecting the initial request to www.snort.org to dl.snort.org. Is there anyway you can do that redirection "behind the scenes" do I don't have to add the .34 to a butt load of outgoing fw rules?My question now is, what's the best timeframe for updating rules? I have a script that downloads the rules once a week (via oinkmaster)...should I change that to something different? Is there a way to diff the rules or tarball on a box and compare to what's online before downloading? How can end users lighten the load on the snort.org site? Just a few questions I guess.Good questions, and I hope everyone is paying attention to this thread so we can lighten the load. I personally have a system that only runs when I get the rule email from the VRT. I run it manually. I have just automated my scripts to run, download the rules, create a new sid-msg.map file with my custom rules in it, restart barnyard and restart Snort. Rule releases come out about every two weeks or so, depending upon the threats on the internet that the VRT has to cover. I think once a week is a fine frequency for keeping it automated. Depending upon your environment, VRT releases rules to cover Microsoft vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday (Second Tuesday of every month), so shortly after this rule release might be a good idea. It's the once a minute, or once every 15 minute people we have to be concerned about. Once a day is fine, but in reality, rules aren't going to be released that often. I think once a week is a good frequency.
Actually, we release rules almost EVERY WEEK. Recently this has not been the case for various reasons. But under normal circumstances you can expect new rule files every Tuesday. (sometimes it gets pushed to a Wednesday or Thursday) On occasion something comes up that requires an out of band release, today would be an example of that. Plan accordingly. -- Nigel Houghton Head Mentalist SF VRT http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://www.snort.org/vrt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? JJ Cummings (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Jefferson, Shawn (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? JJ Cummings (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Jefferson, Shawn (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Joel Esler (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? JJ Cummings (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Jack Pepper (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? JJ Cummings (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Jack Pepper (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Joel Esler (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Nigel Houghton (May 29)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Nigel Houghton (May 28)
- Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error? Mike Guiterman (May 28)