Re: Intermittent Pulled Pork Error

[JJC <cummingsj () gmail com>]

When did you upgrade your snort version?  PP will read the version
that you are running and attempt to fetch the ruleset for that
specific version, unless you specify the version string in the pp
config file.

JJC

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Weir, Jason <jason.weir () nhrs org> wrote:
> FYI - PP did not error out at 6, 8, and 10PM last night or 8AM and Noon
> today...
>
> -J
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nigel Houghton [mailto:nhoughton () sourcefire com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:38 PM
> > To: Weir, Jason
> > Cc: Snort Users
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Intermittent Pulled Pork Error
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:32:45 -0500, Nigel Houghton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:05:09 -0500, Weir, Jason wrote:
> > > > Doesn't happen all of the time...
> > > >
> > > > Error 500 when fetching
> > https://www.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-2904.tar.gz.md5 at
> > > > /usr/local/bin/pulledpork.pl line 390
> > > >
> > > > -J
> > >
> > > That's not a PulledPork error, that's a website error. The
> > file isn't
> > > there, which strictly speaking shouldn't be a 500 server error, but
> > > since the application that handles looking for the file
> > can't find it,
> > > the server will return the application error instead of a
> > 404 not found.
> > > With that said, I'll forward this to our Snort web team for
> > > investigation.
> >
> > Actually, no I won't. After looking at snort.org I see that
> > the 2.9.0.4
> > rule set is not yet available for registered users. So, you'll get a
> > 404 (or 500) for the rules file too.
> >
> > You can fix this for future use by using
> > snortrules-snapshot-edge.tar.gz as the name of your rules file. That
> > way, you will get the latest version of rules for either
> > registered or
> > subscriber rules automatically. Right now, for registered users this
> > will be a 2.9.0.3 rule set. Which should work with 2.9.0.4.
> >
> > Now, per the rules of the drinking game, I will be taking a
> > shot or two
> > for replying to my own email.
> >
> > --
> > Nigel Houghton
> > Head Mentalist
> > SF VRT Department of Intelligence Excellence
> > http://vrt-blog.snort.org/ && http://labs.snort.org/
>
>
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