Re: When Upgrading Breaks Auto Rule Management

[Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>]

Isn't this what "snortrules-snapshot-edge.tar.gz" is suppose to
handle? I thought "edge" would give you the most recent version of the
rules you have access to and it would automatically determined
registered user vs. subscription user based on the oink code you give
it?

rule_url=https://www.snort.org/sub-rules/|snortrules-snapshot-edge.tar.gz|<oinkcode>


thx,
Wally


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Eoin Miller
<eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com> wrote:
> On 4/28/2011 4:47 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:10 +0000, Eoin Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Then it occurred to me, go to the site and check if 2.9.0.5 rules are
> > > available yet for registered users and after reviewing that site and the
> > > SourceFire blog, it was clear that 30 days have not passed yet. Is it
> > > possible to get some kind of place holder to pull down the 2.9.0.4
> > > version of the rules until the 2.9.0.5 rules are available? Otherwise if
> > > users roll out a new sensor within the first 30 days of a new Snort
> > > version being released, their VRT auto rule updating will break until
> > > the 30 days has expired.
> > Eoin,
> >
> > Maybe I am not understanding what you are asking here, but if you change
> > 2905 to 2904 in pulledpork, it'll grab the 2904 rules.  Is that what you
> > are asking?
> >
> > Joel
> Yes, if you specify the version 2.9.0.4 in the pulled pork conf file
> when you are actually running 2.9.0.5 to make it work. But then after
> the 30 day lag has expired, you have to remember to go back in and
> comment that line out of the conf file so you start pulling 2.9.0.5
> rules for your 2.9.0.5 instance because if you don't there will be a
> time when 2.9.0.4 is gone from the supported rule list when 2.9.0.5 is
> still supported. Its an annoyance that requires good knowledge of the 30
> day lag, when your snort version was released because otherwise users
> will be thinking their oinkcode does not work etc etc. If there is no
> 2.9.0.5 available for a user because they are reg vers subscription,
> then if the request for 2.9.0.5 could return the 2.9.0.4 version. Or
> actually releasing 2.9.0.5 registered user rules to correspond with a
> 2.9.0.5 release on the same day would probably be a good idea. Otherwise
> people have to deal with this type of gotcha for the 30 day lag period.
>
> -- Eoin
>
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