Re: Snort Configuration Problem

[Sujoy Ghosh <sujoyghosh297 () gmail com>]

Thanks Joel. It was very helpful. :-)

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

> You are using a 2.9.2.0 or greater snort.conf with 2.9.1.2. Either upgrade
> Snort or you'll have to change your snort.conf.
>
> if you search for "snort.conf examples" in Google, the first hit should
> lead you to the VRT recommended configurations.
> --
> Joel Esler
> Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> OpenSource Community Manager
>
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Sujoy Ghosh <sujoyghosh297 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> I am using snort 2.9.1.2 and facing an issue with the configuration. While
> running it, the following is the error:
>
> HttpInspect Config:
> GLOBAL CONFIG
> Max Pipeline Requests: 0
> Inspection Type: STATELESS
> Detect Proxy Usage: NO
> IIS Unicode Map Filename: /etc/snort/unicode.map
> IIS Unicode Map Codepage: 1252
> Memcap used for logging URI and Hostname: 150994944
> Max Gzip Memory: 838860
> Max Gzip Sessions: 6
> Gzip Compress Depth: 65535
> Gzip Decompress Depth: 65535
> ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf(328) => Length of the http request method
> shoould not exceed the max request method length of '7'.
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> Please help resolve.
>
> Thanks,
> Sujoy
>
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