Re: Snort 2.8.6.1 Now Available

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 7/23/2010 09:17, Nigel Houghton wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:22 -0400, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
> > We shouldn't have to write algorithms to download a tarball. A simple
> > redirect would do.
>
> The moving target link is already a redirect. I agree, a known link
> that is a redirect to the moving target would be useful, but I'm not
> sure that's possible with the way the backend system is set up for
> snort.org these days. I'll throw it out to the IT folks again though.

the problem is the link itself... to be more direct...

hxxp://www.snort.org/downloads/116

does that tell you the actual name of the file?? see? this is a problem for 
those who need to download the snort sources so that snort can be built in for 
their environment... this is especially important when one is building a 
firewall environment and must keep possible attack areas as small as possible...

while the above link on the downloads page does not tell us the actual name of 
the source code tarball, this link does and it does get redirected to that cloud 
thingee ;)

hxxp://www.snort.org/ports/snort-current/snort-2.8.6.1.tar.gz

now if someone can figure out why sometimes it spews xml garbage in reply to the 
http request instead of spitting out the binary tarball, i'm sure that many 
would be grateful and their scripts would be simpler ;)

i understand that the above link also works via ftp but i've not tested that as 
of yet... if it is true, then it will simplify and make things much better ;)

> > > Also, for the record, if you see me top-post then I am most likely not
> > > paying attention.
> >
> > I figured you were borrowing Joel's iPadPhone :-)
>
> He won't let anyone near that thing. It's a little creepy the way he
> holds on to it.

:lol:

> > > Also, nice if you cut the Sourceforge mailing list cruft from the
> > > bottom of replies. Not totally required, but keeps threads a little
> > > more readable.
> >
> > Umm, I did, and always have.
>
> Oh, yeah I know, just wanted to throw that in there when the "top post"
> crew get involved along with the "who cares?" people.
>
> Bottom post, cut the cruft.

yup! it is the natural way of the flow :)

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