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Re: [Snort-users] VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error?
From: Jeff Dell <jdell_at_nospam>Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 18:20:34 GMT
To: "'Joel Esler'" <jesler@sourcefire.com>, "'Jack Pepper'" <pepperjack@afferentsecurity.com>
Interesting.. I didn't know
http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/<oinkcode>/snortrules-snapshot-C URRENT.tar.gz.md5
existed. Is there a link that doesn't require an oinkcode? I can't find one.
I also noticed that when you use this link it redirects to:
http://dl.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz.md5?oink_co de=<oinkcode>
Is the original link going to go away?
Thanks!
Jeff
From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler@sourcefire.com]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:57 PM
To: Jack Pepper
Cc: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error?
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Jack Pepper <pepperjack@afferentsecurity.com> wrote:
Quoting Jeff Dell <jdell@activeworx.com>:
> The problem with once a week is what happens if you check on Monday at 8am
> and the rules are updated on Monday at 8:05? You won't get any updates for
2
> weeks. It would be really great to have something like a checksum that
will
> be available to see if there is a change in the rules file. This way users
> know exactly when an update has occurred and even if they check it every
15
> minutes they will be checking a tiny file as compared to 90megs+ file.
Then
> incorporating this into your favorite update utility will make updates
very
> fast most of the time as there won't be an update to the file, and would
> severely lower the bandwidth that snort.org needs.
>
Good idea. If I could download the md5 using the oinkcode, it would be very nice. Like this:
http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/${OINK}/snortrules-2.8.tar.gz.md
5
<http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/$%7bOINK%7d/snortrules-2.8.tar.
gz.md5>
Why would you need an oinkcode to look for the md5? That's an unneeded step. -- joel esler | Sourcefire | gtalk: jesler@sourcefire.com | 302-223-5974
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