Re: Snort 2.8.6.1 Now Available

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 7/23/2010 15:18, Crook, Parker wrote:
> > From: waldo kitty [mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net]
> > hxxp://www.snort.org/downloads/116
> >
> > does that tell you the actual name of the file?? see? this is a problem
> > for
> > those who need to download the snort sources so that snort can be built in
> > for
> > their environment... this is especially important when one is building a
> > firewall environment and must keep possible attack areas as small as
> > possible...
>
> Erm... shouldn't the sources be built in a sandbox environment and then distributed to the production systems via 
> .rpm or .deb or other some such?  If you're trying to keep your threat space as small as possible that is...

they are... we have a specially developed build environment and the results are 
distributed via "other some such" ;)

> wget worked just fine for me... although the file was saved as 
> snort-2.8.6.1.tar.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=[snipped]&Expires=[snipped]&Signature=[snipped].  Not optimal, but it unzipped 
> and untarred just fine.

yeah, that is part of the problem but we'll just have to see what fleshes out ;)

thanks for the feedback! ;)

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