RE: Testing Snort

["Joshua Berry" <jberry () PENSON COM>]

Do you have the http_inspect preprocessor enabled and correctly
configured?
 
-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Jody
Gilbert
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:24 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Testing Snort
 
Hello All,
I have just installed snort for the first time and am trying to test it
from my PC.
I am having trouble testing the web-iis rules.
I have tried accessing /msadcs.dll and /cmd.exe on some of the web
servers on our LAN, but no alerts are created by snort.
I added the following rule Snort as a test, which produced plenty of
alerts:
alert tcp any any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Test WEB-IIS";
flow:to_server; sid:1970; rev:6;)
However, when I add 'uricontent:"/msadcs.dll"; nocase;' to the above
rule I do not get any alerts.
I am new to Snort, so I imagine (hope) it's something pretty simple.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I am running Snort 2.1.3 on a Windows XP PC.
Cheers,
Jody
 
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