Re: Homenet Question

[Adam Gardner <adamgardner502 () gmail com>]

Since your $EXTERNAL_NET is set to "any" 10.0.0.0/8 is included in that.
 You'll probably want to set $EXTERNAL_NET to !$HOME_NET.


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Gibson, Samuel <gibsons () my uwstout edu>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having an interesting issue with the homenet.  I have it setup in
> snort.conf as follows:
>
> ipvar HOME_NET [10.0.0.0/8]
>
> ipvar EXTERNAL_NET any
>
> ipvar DNS_Servers [10.1.2.3,10.1.2.4]
>
> Which we have subnetted into internal networks similar to 10.1.2.x,
> 10.2.3.x and so on.  However our VPN clients use 10.1.20.x/24.
>
> Whenever a VPN Client registers itself in DNS after connecting, I get an
> ET POLICY DNS Update From External net  (Gen 1 Sig 2009702)
>
> The rule triggers, for example, with a source of 10.10.20.10 and a
> destination of 10.1.2.3
>
> I can suppress this, but am mostly wondering if anyone has any insight
> into why the VPN is not being considered part of HOMENET.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
>
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