Re: snort.org IP address changes

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

I agree Jason.  Since we moved Snort.org to AWS, it's just one of those
realities we may have to deal with as a community.

J

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jason Haar <Jason_Haar () trimble com> wrote:

> On 08/05/12 09:40, Ben Trufanow wrote:
> > What is the best IP range to use in order to whitelist www.snort.org
> > <http://www.snort.org> for successful updates?
> I can't see how that could ever be a sustainable solution. You will be
> chasing changes in subnets forever. What we do is use (drum roll) proxy
> servers! They have open Internet access - but log every transaction and
> can block based on DNS names (which firewalls cannot).
>
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