Re: Oinkmaster can't get rules

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Looks like you may have a dns problem resolving amazon's hostname. 


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On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Alejandro Cabrera Obed <aco1967 () gmail com> wrote:

> Dear all, I've Oinkmaster 2.0 installed in my Windows machine. I've
> change the URL path to download the Snort rules since last June, it's
> OK because some days ago it worked.
>
> I run the script from a command shell (Windows), in the way:
>
> c:\oinkmaster-2.0\oinkmaster.pl -C c:\oinkmaster-2.0\oinkmaster.conf
> -o "c:\snort\rules"
>
> But some days ago I got the following error:
>
> oinkmaster.pl: Error: could not download from
> http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi
> /*my_oinkcode*/snortrules-snapshot-2853.tar.gz:
> 500 Can't connect to s3.amazonaws.com:443 (Bad hostname 's3.amazonaws.com')
>
> I put my proxy settings as a Windows enviroment variable as follow:
>
> HTTP_proxy = http://10.4.56.2:8080
>
> but I don't know what happen now.
>
> If I download the rules from my web browser with the same proxy
> settings, I succed !!!
>
> So please what's the problem with oinkmaster.pl ???
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Alejandro
>
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