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Re: CyberKit 2.2 Ping, its driven me Nuts..


From: "Matthew L. McCarty" <matthew () rareearthstrategies com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:24:04 -0600

This rule is also triggered if you use any of the services offered by 
www.ineto.com

So I would imagine there may be other services that trigger this alert.

I received thousands and thousands a day -- so I disabled the rule on incoming 
traffic.

On Monday 29 December 2003 12:22, Thompson, Jimi wrote:
All,

My personal preference is to re-write the rule to ignore external traffic.
I tend to block all PING traffic at the firewall.  I can't think of a good
reason that anyone would need to ping anything that's on my network.  If
you have something infected on your internal network, you should a) know
about it and b) fix it so completely disabling the rule really isn't an
option to me.

You can do this by reversing the "$EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET" portion
of the rule to read "$HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET" and adding a copy of
the rule ("$HOME_NET any -> $HOME_NET") to show traffic on your local
network. These two should cause SNORT to catch any outbound or local
traffic allowing you to clean up your network and make better use of your
bandwidth.

HTH,

Jimi

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris N [mailto:chris.northrop () po state ct us]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:52 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net;
snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] CyberKit 2.2 Ping, its driven me Nuts..

Fellow Snorters,

Ok, I have had enough of this "CyberKit 2.2 Ping." How are some of you guys
dealing with it? Do you just ignore(pass), log every one, or go and try to
shut the offending hosts down? Although, trying to shutdown all the
offending host could be a daunting task, since there are so dam many.

Chris



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