Snort Wget Failure (can't resolve www.snort.org)

[Todd Booth <todd.booth () ltu se>]

Hello,

 

I’ve configured snort, on my Vyatta network/security device but the initial
downloading of rules fails.  I surfed the net and see other users (without
Vyatta) are having the same problems.

 

Here is the initial wget

 

wget http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
<http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/%3cmy%20snort%20oink%20code%3e/
snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz> <my snort oink
code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz

 

Here is the error:

 

--2011-09-23 08:45:27--  http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
<http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/%3cmy> <my snort oink
code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz

Resolving www.snort.org... failed: Name or service not known.

wget: unable to resolve host address `www.snort.org'

 

However if I ping www.snort.org from my Vyatta, I get the ip address
resolved as 68.177.102.20

 

So in my new wget, I replaced www.snort.org with 68.177.102.20, as follows

 

vyatta@Vyatta1:~$ wget http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
<http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/%3cmy> <my oink
code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz

--2011-09-23 07:55:21--  http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/
<http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/%3cmy> <my oink
code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz

Connecting to 68.177.102.20:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found

Location:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/snortrules-snapshot-290
5.tar.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=<key>&Expires=1316764830&Signature=

JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D [following]

--2011-09-23 07:55:24--
http://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/sn

ortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJJSHU7YNPLE5MKOQ&Expires=13
1676

4830&Signature=JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D

Resolving s3.amazonaws.com... failed: Name or service not known.

wget: unable to resolve host address `s3.amazonaws.com'

 

So I do a wget to www.snort.org and I get referred to s3.amazonaws.com

 

However s3.amazonaws.com is also not resolved.  So I try ping and get the
s3.amazonaw.com ip address address and plug that in to the above 2nd wget

 

wget
http://72.21.211.173/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/snortrules-snapshot-2905.t
ar.gz?<key>&Expires=1316764830&Signature=JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D

 

Then I get the following error:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden

2011-09-23 08:50:47 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

 

Is this a problem with wget?  Or is this a problem with the configuration at
www.snort.org?

 

Thanks and Regards,

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