Re: Get Invalid Configuration in blacklist.rules when restart Snort

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

Good call Stephen…


I’m sure I have the power to fix this issue…

J

> On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Stephen Gantz <stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu> wrote:
>
> Don't confuse blacklist.rules (one of the VRT rules files) with the blacklist of IP addresses referenced in your 
> reputation preprocessor. It looks like you may have edited blacklist.rules instead of the black_list.rules file 
> referenced by default by the preprocessor in snort.conf. Bear in mind that black_list.rules does not exist when you 
> install Snort - your have to create it (and the white_list.rules file too if you are using a whitelist). I tell my 
> students to choose a different name for the blacklist file (the one with the IP addresses) to try to avoid exactly 
> this confusion. 
>
> Dr. Stephen D. Gantz
> CISSP-ISSAP, CEH, CGEIT, CRISC, CIPP/G, C|CISO
> Professor of Information Assurance
> The Graduate School
> University of Maryland University College
> stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu <mailto:stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu>
>
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:56 AM, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com <mailto:jesler () cisco com>> wrote:
>
> > > On Oct 6, 2014, at 1:38 AM, Jutichai Thongkrachai <thsecmaniac () gmail com <mailto:thsecmaniac () gmail com>> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Before I have a problem, I installed pulledpork for getting the latest rule from snort.
> > >
> > > After that I restart snort but get this error:
> > >
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: Detection:
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: Search-Method = AC-Full-Q
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: Split Any/Any group = enabled
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: Search-Method-Optimizations = enabled
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: Maximum pattern length = 20
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25714]: FATAL ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/blacklist.rules(1) Invalid configuration line: 
> > > 1.122.106.236
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 snort[25709]: [33B blob data]
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 systemd[1]: snort.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
> > > Oct 06 12:25:55 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start up the SNORT Intrusion Detection System daemon.
> > >
> > >
> > > but in the blacklist.rules, there are just ip address per line only
> > <trim digest>
> >
> > Looks like you aren’t loading the blacklist as a blacklist inside the preprocessor.  It appears Snort is trying to 
> > load the Blacklist as a configuration option or something.
> >
> > Can you attach your snort.conf?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joel Esler
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