Re: snort.conf doesn't recognize internal address

[David Lambert <dave () demo legallock com>]

Thanks for your quick reply. I did try that, and then got the error:

ERROR snort.conf (229) => Couldn't resolve hostname eth1_ADDRESS
Fatal Error, Quitting..

I presume it tries to do a DNS lookup on 'eth1_ADDRESS' ?

Dave.n Monday 03 December 2001 10:20 am, Guillaume wrote:
> En réponse à David Lambert <dave () demo legallock com>:
> > I am new to snort, so please forgive me if this is trivial question.
> > If I specify HOME_NET as $eth1_ADDRESS I get the following error on
> > Linux:
> >
> >  Parsing Rules file snort.conf
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Initializing rule chains...
> > [!] ERROR snort.conf (48): Bad value in variable definition!
> >        Make sure you don't have a "$" in the var name
> > Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> Did you try with > eth1_ADDRESS < without the '$' ?
>
>
> Guillaume
>
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