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Re: Intermittent Pulled Pork Error


From: "Weir, Jason" <jason.weir () nhrs org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:37:30 -0500

I agree that it shouldn't be a PP problem but when oinkmaster works at
the same time it makes you wonder...

I added -vv per JJ below..

Now I'm trying to make it fail by running the script manually..

It works without error every time..  I'll have to wait for cron to run
it and if it fails I'll provide the output..

-J


-----Original Message-----
From: JJ Cummings [mailto:cummingsj () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:35 PM
To: Weir, Jason
Cc: Joel Esler; Snort Users; Nigel Houghton
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Intermittent Pulled Pork Error


That is correct, md5 check then download or not, depending on 
hash change... As to the intermittent failures, I don't see 
what could be causing this in PP but if we can get the extra 
verbose output, might prove useful... (-vv)

Sent from the iRoad

On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:29, "Weir, Jason" <jason.weir () nhrs org> wrote:

Unless I'm incorrect - I'm only pulling rules when the md5 
hash file has
changed... I do have PP checking every couple hours (cron) for an
updated md5.

I know that's way more often then you push updates, but it 
should have
no effect on the file availability...

FYI - overnight PP fetching the 2.9.0.4 rules failed half the time,
another sensor still using oinkmaster fetching the 2.8.6.1 
rules worked
without error every time..

So maybe this is a PP problem???

-J

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:04 PM
To: Weir, Jason
Cc: Nigel Houghton; Snort Users
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Intermittent Pulled Pork Error


We shouldn't. We've notified the web-team. How often are you 
trying to pull rule updates?  Just out of curiosity. 

-- 
Sent from my iPad
Please excuse the brevity

On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:04 PM, "Weir, Jason" 
<jason.weir () nhrs org> wrote:

Nigel,

I changed the rules file name to 
snortrules-snapshot-edge.tar.gz as
indicated below and I'm intermittently still getting the 
500 error..

"Error 500 when fetching


https://www.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-2904.tar.gz.md5 at
/usr/local/bin/pulledpork.pl line 390"

Just tried it manually and it worked fine...  You guys 
having a delivery
problem?

-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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