Re: Snort VRT rules

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Russell Fulton<r.fulton () auckland ac nz> wrote:
> Just an FYI and apologies for the cross posting
>
> As many of you are no doubt already well aware the snort rules snap
> shot file is now approaching 100MB and is very slow to down load.
>
> What you may not know is that now that the new snort web site is up
> the snapshot file is no longer being rebuilt every day so you can now
> rely on the http header stuff to decide whether or not to download the
> file.  They also have md5 files which you can check if you are really
> don't trust the http headers.

FYI: The snapshot wasn't being built on a daily basis on the old
snort.org site either.

-- 
Nigel Houghton
Head Mentalist
SF VRT
http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://www.snort.org/vrt/

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