Re: Snort not loading dynamic rules?

["Andy Berryman" <aberryman () Cymtec com>]

Yeah, accidentally pasted twice. Thanks, that explains it perfectly. 

 

From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:23 PM
To: Andy Berryman
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort not loading dynamic rules?

 

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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