Re: Snort not loading dynamic rules?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

I think you pasted the same thing twice.

Dynamic rules, as listed below, are the "Activate/Dynamic" rules.  not the SO rules.  Therefore, if you don't have 
Dynamic rules, it will always read 0.  VRT ships zero Dynamic rules.  So, if you are running the VRT ruleset, you will 
have 0 there.

Matter of fact, I don't think anyone ships dynamic rules.  I don't know anyone that uses them.  (Not saying there 
isn't, I've just never ran across them)

J

On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Andy Berryman wrote:

> Commented out the so.rules and it worked for that.
>  
> Feb 10 21:25:44 (none) snort[28150]: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Feb 10 21:25:44 (none) snort[28150]: Initializing rule chains...
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 5660 Snort rules read
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     5418 detection rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     65 decoder rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     177 preprocessor rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 5660 Option Chains linked into 595 Chain Headers
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 0 Dynamic rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: +++++++++++++++++++
>  
>  
> Commented back in:
>  
> Feb 10 21:25:44 (none) snort[28150]: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Feb 10 21:25:44 (none) snort[28150]: Initializing rule chains...
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 5660 Snort rules read
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     5418 detection rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     65 decoder rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]:     177 preprocessor rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 5660 Option Chains linked into 595 Chain Headers
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: 0 Dynamic rules
> Feb 10 21:26:00 (none) snort[28150]: +++++++++++++++++++
>  
>  
> So, what you're getting at is the Dynamic rules will always show zero. Is there a real way to tell if they were 
> loaded? Or is that what commenting out the stub rules(so_rules) does?
>  
> Andy
>  
> From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:19 PM
> To: Andy Berryman
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net List
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort not loading dynamic rules?
>  
> Andy,
>  
> Just talked to someone in dev.  The "Dynamic Rules" are the 'activate/dynamic' kind.  Which are not the Shared Object 
> kind.  
>  
> But to your below point, comment out the stub rules in your snort.conf.  The lines you have that use "SORULE_PATH"
>  
> J
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