Re: snort 2.0 RC1 runs commented out rules?

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

"Michael Scheidell" <scheidell () secnap net> writes:

> I get too many false alarms on the smtp relay rule, so I comment it out:
> policy.rules:#alert tcp $SMTP_SERVERS 25 -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"POLICY
> SMTP relaying denied"; flow:established,from_server; content: "550 5.7.1";
> depth:70; reference:url,mail-abuse.org/tsi/ar-fix.html;
> reference:arachnids,249; classtype:misc-activity; sid:567; rev:9;)
>
> but, snort 2.0RC1 just triggered on it and here is payload from acid to show
> its not a barnyard/acid thing:
> length = 68

Does the following look different depending on wether or not you
comment out the rule?  I just tried the single rule by itself.

Initializing rule chains...
0 Snort rules read...
0 Option Chains linked into 0 Chain Headers
0 Dynamic rules

Is this the rule that was set off by that packet?
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
A watched process never cores.


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