Re: Oinkmaster fails to download rules

["Jeronimo L. Cabral" <jelocabral () gmail com>]

Sorry.....I had an error in the URL, this is mine:

http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-snapshot-2921.tar.gz

I've installed snort 2.9.2.1 but the Oinkmaster error appears.

What can be the problem ???

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:35:00AM -0300, Jeronimo L. Cabral wrote:
> > Dear, I use Oinkmaster to download rules as registered user through a
> > proxy server I'veconfigred in /etc/wgetrc. But I fail, look:
> >
> > root@myhost:/etc# oinkmaster -o /usr/local/snort/rules
> > Loading /etc/oinkmaster.conf
> > Downloading file from
> > http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-snapshot-2_2.tar.gz...
> > /usr/sbin/oinkmaster: Error: could not download from
> > http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-snapshot-2_2.tar.gz. Output
> > from wget follows:
> >
> >  --2012-03-09 11:29:21--
> > http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-snapshot-2_2.tar.gz
> > Connecting to 10.4.133.106:4900... connected.
> > Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> > 2012-03-09 11:29:22 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> > Oink, oink. Exiting...
>
> We haven't distributed rules for 2.2.0 for about...  8 years?  At least?
>
>
> I suggest updating to Snort 2.9.2.2 and downloading 2.9.2.2 rules.
>
> --
> Joel Esler
> Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> OpenSource Community Manager
> Sourcefire

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