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RE: New IP Range for AIM_SERVERS


From: "Chris Harrington" <charrington () nitrosecurity com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:48:04 -0500

Rang would be the broken 'e' key. :)  What do you mean invalidate? We would
be watching more networks not less.


--Chris 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian [mailto:bmc () snort org] 
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:34 PM
To: Chris Harrington
Cc: 'Frank Knobbe'; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] New IP Range for AIM_SERVERS

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Chris Harrington wrote:
But they are registered to AOL and _could_ be used as AIM 
servers. The 
performance decrease for changing the AIM_SERVER variable to the 2 
Class B's was not even noticeable on my test systems. I 
would rather 
so this than have to add a new class C every time someone 
happens to 
notice a new rang is in use. Any other reason why this 
should not be 
changed? Worst case scenario is Snort is watching address 
ranges that may never have AIM servers.

It invalidates the rules for AOL users, many of whom use Snort.

BTW, what is a rang?

Brian





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