Re: [Snort-users] EOL for Snort 2.8.5.3 and Snort 2.8.6.0 rules reminder

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

They are not our servers. Please direct your concerns to
snort-site () snort org. We can forward your requests too.

For the record, VRT has never run the infrastructure for snort.org.
Just in case anyone wondered

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Nigel Houghton
Head Mentalist
SF VRT Department of Intelligence Excellence
http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://labs.snort.org/

On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:03 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> On 10/4/2010 20:58, Nigel Houghton wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:01:45 +0000, Michael Green wrote:
> > > So as a registered user I really only have 60 days, because I can't
> > > get a 2.9 rule set for another 30 days. Is that right?
> >
> > No. The rule packs will still roll over, you still have the 90 days.
>
> can you say if VRT has taken my suggestion(s) on redirecting "registered" users
> to the last "registered" user's rules snapshot file when they update their snort
> version on the bleeding edge?
>
> for example...
>
> when i get 2.9.0 compiled and working, my automated update routines will query
> snort for its version... they will see 2.9.0 and translate that to 2900 for the
> rules file pull... when the update script(s) contact the VRT update server with
> the OINKCODE and attempt to pull the 2900 rules sets archive, the VRT server
> will see that that OINKCODE is for a "registered" user... the last time i ran
> into this was when moving to 2.8.6.1 before there was a 2.8.6.1 archive for
> "registered" users... the update scripts got a "Forbidden" response from the VRT
> server instead of being redirected to the 2860 rules archive like they should be
> in a user/automation friendly environment... in this instance, i would expect
> that there would be a redirect to the 2861 rules archive for "registered" user
> OINKCODEs and that this would be in effect until there is a 2900 rules archive
> release in at least 30 days...
>
> does this make sense? i do hope it does this time... it didn't seem to last time :?
>
>
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