Re: New rules keyword error

["Josh Berry" <josh.berry () linknet-solutions com>]

If you are not consistantly monitoring your IDS health, creating your own
sigs that custom fit your environment, and weeding out the sigs you don't
need then why even have IDS.  IDS is not a solution that you plug in and
walk away from.

I completely agree with the last post, you shouldn't even bother if you
don't plan on maintaining it.  I spend at least 2 hours a day on IDS
analysis and maintenance.


> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:57, Marc Quibell wrote:
> > -I have always Auto-updated Snort. Period.  Never had any problems.
>
> Oh really? You didn't run into problems during the 1.9/2.0 parallel? I
> remember that CVS all of the sudden contained rules with strange new
> keywords, and Snort barfed promptly. The solution was obviously to check
> out the correct tag and not rely on HEAD. Maybe you got lucky with
> tarballs, but I recall there being with those in the past as well.
>
> > -I don't pay for this product, it's not a production show-stopper! So no
> > one is
> > going to fuss about it, or even notice it, if it's out of comminsion for
> > 5 mins
> > or 5 days!
>
> That may be, but that's only you. Don't assume the same for others.
>
> > Now, why on Earth would I babysit this product? I can usually fix any
> > problem
> > with rules in a matter of seconds...
>
> Maybe I'm missing context, but IDS's need to be babysit. If you don't,
> there may be something wrong with the way to do IDS.
>
> No offense, just some food for thought....
>
> Regards,
> Frank



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