Snort Updating problems !!!

EZ

I'm just a newb to this form but not to pf. I have to say Thanks to everyone for all the work. That snort package Is wild. I dug through some of the scripts. All I could say Is AMAZING man. Of course I had a new chunk of hardware I just put in and snort will not update. Ill post the specs on the bottom. After looking through the update code I felt like my brain was stuck in a blinder. But I wrote an add in box for direct url placement. It failed to pick up the package. I'm sure the issue has to be the url that's not allowing the download. The same conclusion you have already come to.

Pretty much I threw a fit for an hour and had a cocktail and it popped into my head that a year or so ago I was using a copy of gallery2 on one of my servers. It had a piece of code that dealt with and took care of url redirect with a cache page. Tomorrow Ill look for that code and see If I could find It and post if you want.

Also It might be possible to post a second server that allows the update page to go fetch the url from and then download the package. Even a Proxy for the download but It would take resources. It might mess with your untar code but could be a final solution. Good luck James. Everyone Thanks for all the work. Its very appreciated.

Snort's on manual for now.

Supermicro X6DPL-4G2 board.
dule LV xeon 2ghz processors
sda/ hdd
2 gig's ram
quad supermicro gig Net card add on.

rnowotny

Dear g4m3c4ck,
I dont wanted to be rude at all, just giving some input what might make sense.
So if my post seems to be unpolite, I apologize.
You may have noticed that I posted a tiny shellscript some posts before,
to make a manual update of snortrules via cronjob. Not a big deal - but some rookies might use it.
I might come up with a script that preserve the ON/OFF state for each IDS across updates,
because I need it myself ;-)

Yours sincerely
Robert

@g4m3c4ck:

Dear rnowotny,
Being the newbie you are. If you already knew the time James and many others have already spent on the pfsense project as well as the complexity of doing so you would not have worded or made the statements in the way you did. pfSense is a great and very powerful project that you use for FREE. If you want to contribute to the project please do so but in the proper way. Basically, I am asking you to put up or shut up.

Sincerly,

Avid pfSense/Snort user and appeciator

EZ

Alright. I dug through my code folder and found this price. Its using fstockopen opt. to pull a redirected url. Its not what I was looking for but might do the job. Ill test it tonight and see if I can pull down the monster url from snort. If I have any luck Ill post my finished pages for inspection.
Take it EZ.

url_redirect.txt

darklogic

rnowotny

I understand what you are saying on a lot of your post. I agree with most statements on the rules and there are better ways to make sure rules are enabled and disabled after updates. These are all the same issues that others are dealing with. James Dean picked up on the SNORT project when no one else did, he also has contributed endless hours to the programming and online fourms. SNORT is getting better and better. I realize you may mean no harm, but your wording is kind of blunt!!! Different people online are going to take your words differently from others. Statements like posting scripts online so some rookies may use it is not what I would call appropriate commits. The fact that anyone on these forums and using pfsense says to me that hey, no one here is really a rookie.

Take Care,

Matt

djnicofun

hello,

I use Pfsense V1.2.3-RC1 , a have install package : Snort : 2.8.6 pkg v. 1.27

i have find a bug , to update the rules the filename of the rules has change since : 10 junes 2010

the file name is now :
snortrules-snapshot-2860.tar.gz

Example for snort 2.8.6.0:
url = http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/snortrules-snapshot-2860.tar.gz

Important Note from SNORT website:
We are changing the way we publish rules. In June 2010 we stopped offering rules in the "snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT" format. Instead, rules are released for specific versions of Snort. You will be responsible for downloading the correct rules release for your version of Snort. The new versioning mechanism will require a four digit version in the file name.

Please James can you update the package ?

Best reagrds

djnicofun

Where is the file : oinkmaster.conf on pfsense vers: 1.2.21 ??

rnowotny

Please check this post, it is a quick and dirty workaround until the new version is avail :

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26382.msg139375.html#msg139375

@djnicofun:

hello,

I use Pfsense V1.2.3-RC1 , a have install package : Snort : 2.8.6 pkg v. 1.27

i have find a bug , to update the rules the filename of the rules has change since : 10 junes 2010

the file name is now :
snortrules-snapshot-2860.tar.gz

Example for snort 2.8.6.0:
url = http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/snortrules-snapshot-2860.tar.gz

Important Note from SNORT website:
We are changing the way we publish rules. In June 2010 we stopped offering rules in the "snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT" format. Instead, rules are released for specific versions of Snort. You will be responsible for downloading the correct rules release for your version of Snort. The new versioning mechanism will require a four digit version in the file name.

Please James can you update the package ?

Best reagrds

djnicofun

hi,

Ok thanck you, but i have already read this post, i would like know if an official update of this package will be done or not ?

best regards.

jimp

Well they're tricky guys there at Sourcefire. There were a couple things wrong with the rule downloads:

1. The URL changed.
2. They now redirect you to an Amazon s3 URL to get the actual rules
3. The Amazon url is HTTPS.

So I fixed the URL, changed a redirect option, and I had to disable cURL's SSL validation, but now the rules download for me.

The new package version is up now, give it a try and see if it works.

c0urier

Giving it a try now. Will post back soon!

Update:
Seems to be working just fine - Rules updated and Snort running. Thanks jimp!!!

netmethods

I tried it on all 3 of my pfSense boxes and is working fine. Thanks again Jim!

-Jason

DigitalJer

Looking good here!

Many thanks…

A Former User

I uninstalled the old package and installed the new one and updated it no problem did a port scan test and all is working (fingers crossed) . ;D

tester_02

Question for those brave people that updated (no going back) :)
Premium rules or basic rules?

Hoping people have tested both…

LostInIgnorance

I used the subscribed rules and everything is working great over here

DigitalJer

Basic working fine for me.

tester_02

Thanks for the feedback! I'll give it a whirl…

chowtamah

Thanks Jimp.

Snort now updates and works fine. (with Basic rules)

Guest

The updates are working fine now when I manually click update button, the version info states it is still package v 1.27 when it is actually 1.30.

Also, there is still that issue with rules getting enabled after updates. This is starting to become a pain. I know that this was discussed before and not sure if there is a fix.

I have a lot of rules that need to be disabled in certain categories I have to run, but everytime I get updates, it will enable the rules I disabled. Also it appears that the systems I am running are not getting updates automatically on the set time frame. I have a premium VRT license and currently running 8 PFsense boxes that all have the same issue.

Thanks for any help.

jimp

@darklogic82:

The updates are working fine now when I manually click update button, the version info states it is still package v 1.27 when it is actually 1.30.

Also, there is still that issue with rules getting enabled after updates. This is starting to become a pain. I know that this was discussed before and not sure if there is a fix.

I have a lot of rules that need to be disabled in certain categories I have to run, but everytime I get updates, it will enable the rules I disabled. Also it appears that the systems I am running are not getting updates automatically on the set time frame. I have a premium VRT license and currently running 8 PFsense boxes that all have the same issue.

Thanks for any help.

Those are separate issues from this thread, really. You might start a new thread for each of those issues separately, unless one already exists. I think there may already be some threads out there for the rules getting disabled.

Hopefully the normal package maintainer returns soon and can work on this a bit. I stepped in to fix the updates mentioned in this thread at the request of a commercial support customer, I'd have to spend quite a bit more time looking at the package to even speculate on fixes for the other issues.