Re: Pulled Pork

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:22 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 16:25, Joel Esler wrote:
> > On Oct 30, 2012, at 12:02 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> > > On 10/30/2012 10:55, Joel Esler wrote:
> > >
> > > > We have the 15 minute delay in place, as there are some people who like to
> > > > download the entire ruleset every 5 seconds.
> > >
> > > i highly suspect that these are folks with bad cron entries... you'd think
> > > they'd be aware of the problem but obviously
> > >
> > > 1) they are not OR
> > > 2) they do not care OR
> > > 3) they are trying to cause problems ie: (d)dos anyone?
> >
> > I believe it's #1. They don't know the problem exists. I've written a few of
> > them, and a couple of them have corrected the issue, we have one who
> > acknowledged the problem and is going to fix it (don't know when),
>
> not trying to be nosy but this is out of how many unique oinkcodes abusing the 
> services like this?

A lot.  The amount of people still cron'ed to download extremely old versions of the ruleset is in the thousands.

> > and some that haven't acknowledged at all.
> >
> > And some, whose emails just bounced.
>
> i'd bet that if those oinkcodes were disabled they'd wake up... or maybe feed 
> them a "rules archive" with a file inside that states the problem, that their 
> registered email address is no longer valid and why the code has been set to 
> redirect to this non-rules archive ;)
>
> HA! or even a rule or rules that alerts on traffic and has a message that would 
> point out to them the problem... if they are watching their snort output, that 
> would definitely get their attention ;) ;) ;)

I've thought about these things, but there's some steps that have to be taken first in order to get to that.

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire


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