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    Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11

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      mcury Rebel Alliance @bmeeks
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      @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

      Thanks. It's still embarrassing, though. I checked several things on the page after my fix yesterday EXCEPT that particular button. Lesson learned for next time...

      Who never? 😁

      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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      • fireodoF
        fireodo @bmeeks
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        @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

        should show as available soon

        Until today (almost 2 weeks) nothing has show up - is there a problem in building the package?

        Thanks for your work and
        kind regards,
        fireodo

        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
        pfsense 2.8.0 CE
        Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @fireodo
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          @fireodo said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

          Until today (almost 2 weeks) nothing has show up - is there a problem in building the package?

          I can see 4.1.6_11 for Plus and 4.1.6_9 for non-plus, so seems fine.

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          • fireodoF
            fireodo @Bob.Dig
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            @Bob-Dig said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

            4.1.6_9 for non-plus

            So there is no 4.1.6_11 for CE ...

            Thanks

            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
            pfsense 2.8.0 CE
            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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            • bmeeksB
              bmeeks @fireodo
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              @fireodo said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

              @Bob-Dig said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

              4.1.6_9 for non-plus

              So there is no 4.1.6_11 for CE ...

              Thanks

              There is supposed to be a 4.1.6_11 for both CE and Plus. I was notified that the patch had been merged into both branches. Let me follow up with the Netgate team and see what happened on the CE side.

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              • fireodoF
                fireodo @bmeeks
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                @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                Let me follow up with the Netgate team and see what happened on the CE side.

                Ah, OK - thank you!

                Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                • bmeeksB
                  bmeeks
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                  I sent them an email -- awaiting a reply. I suspect they are busy working on the 23.09 Plus update, so it may take a little bit to get a reply back.

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                    fireodo @bmeeks
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                    @bmeeks Thank you!

                    Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                    SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                    pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                    Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                    • bmeeksB
                      bmeeks
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                      Got a response from the Netgate developer team. There is some kind of internal issue they are looking into whereby the new packages for CE got built on their internal package builder server, but for some reason did not get copied over to the public server so that they were visible to users. Give Netgate a bit of time to work out the problem and get it corrected.

                      Just to share how this works -- the basic process for building packages uses a dedicated Poudriere ports builder server for actually creating the zipped up package files. After building is completed, those zipped up package files are copied over to a web server that hosts the public package repo that your pfSense machines queries for new packages (and downloads them from). That second step of copying over did not happen on the CE side and is what is being investigated.

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                      • fireodoF
                        fireodo @bmeeks
                        last edited by fireodo

                        @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                        Got a response from the Netgate developer team. There is some kind of internal issue they are looking into whereby the new packages for CE got built on their internal package builder server, but for some reason did not get copied over to the public server so that they were visible to users. Give Netgate a bit of time to work out the problem and get it corrected.

                        Thanks, Bill, for the Feedback!

                        20.10.23 EDIT: Still no Update from the Netgate Servers - I took the patched file from here:

                        snort_alerts.php

                        and replaced it on my pfsense (restart Snort after that)

                        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                        pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                        Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                          bmeeks @fireodo
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                          @fireodo said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                          20.10.23 EDIT: Still no Update from the Netgate Servers

                          Noticed the same. Not sure what's up. I did get confirmation the issue was passed along to the team responsible for the package builder servers.

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                            fireodo @bmeeks
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                            @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                            @fireodo said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                            20.10.23 EDIT: Still no Update from the Netgate Servers

                            Noticed the same. Not sure what's up. I did get confirmation the issue was passed along to the team responsible for the package builder servers.

                            Thanks - wish you a nice sunday!

                            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                            pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                              slu
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                              Look like this issue with the update to _11 is still not fixed.

                              pfSense Gold subscription

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                                bmeeks @slu
                                last edited by bmeeks

                                @slu said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                                Look like this issue with the update to _11 is still not fixed.

                                Yeah, not fixed in CE but is fixed in Plus. Just checked my 23.05.1 production box and the 4.1.6_11 package version is showing available there.

                                Don't know what exactly is up with the CE RELEASE and CE DEVEL branches not seeing the package update. I can ping my Netgate contact one more time.

                                Edit Follow-Up: sent another email to my Netgate contact asking for an update. Will post back when I hear something.

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                                  Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @bmeeks
                                  last edited by Bob.Dig

                                  @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                                  Edit Follow-Up: sent another email to my Netgate contact asking for an update. Will post back when I hear something.

                                  Kinda very interesting in these times... edit: There it is.

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                                  • bmeeksB
                                    bmeeks
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                                    The 4.1.6_11 version of the Snort package should now be showing up as available for pfSense 2.7 CE users. I can see it on my end.

                                    Still not sure about 2.8 CE development snapshots. That environment is still a bit wonky for me ???

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                                    • fireodoF
                                      fireodo @bmeeks
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                                      @bmeeks said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                                      The 4.1.6_11 version of the Snort package should now be showing up as available for pfSense 2.7 CE users

                                      I can confirm that here on 2.7.0!

                                      Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                                      SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                                      pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                                      Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                                      • bmeeksB
                                        bmeeks @fireodo
                                        last edited by bmeeks

                                        @fireodo said in Snort 4.1.6_10 Package Update is BROKEN!!! Do not install it. A fix is coming in 4.1.6_11:

                                        I can confirm that here on 2.7.0!

                                        Great. Still is going to be a while before the update appears in the 2.8 CE snapshots. That branch is currently offline and package builds are suspended as the team merges in some additional FreeBSD 14 stuff. But the corrected package code exists in the branch, and as soon as package building is enabled again the updated Snort package should appear for the 2.8 CE development snapshot branch.

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                                        • JonathanLeeJ
                                          JonathanLee
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                                          You guys are amazing. Snort is an amazing tool. Remember Airsnort from the late 90s?

                                          Make sure to upvote

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