Re: Snort Wget Failure (can't resolve www.snort.org)

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

For reference:

We are officially recommending that people use PulledPork.  As it's A) More updated with the VRT ruleset's features and 
B) Will take advantage of future changes to the ruleset.

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire


On Oct 6, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Carney, Megan wrote:

> I haven’t had this exact problem but I have had odd problems downloading the rulesets.
>  
> I use oinkmaster to manage the rulesets and when I run the command to update the rules (/usr/sbin/oinkmaster -i -C 
> /etc/oinkmaster.conf -C /etc/autodisable.conf -o /etc/snort/rules/ -b /etc/snort/backup/) I get this error:
> /usr/sbin/oinkmaster: Error: incorrect URL: 
> "http://www.snort.org/sub-rules/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz/[redacted]/
>  
> But if I visit that URL manually with wget the ruleset downloads just fine.
>  
> Sorry I can’t help with your specific problem. . .but I thought it might help if you knew you’re not the only one 
> having odd issues with downloading the rulesets.
>  
> From: Todd Booth [mailto:todd.booth () ltu se] 
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 3:53 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] Snort Wget Failure (can't resolve www.snort.org)
>  
> Hello,
>  
> I’ve configured snort, on my Vyatta network/security device but the initial downloading of rules fails.  I surfed the 
> net and see other users (without Vyatta) are having the same problems.
>  
> Here is the initial wget
>  
> wget http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/<my snort oink code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz
>  
> Here is the error:
>  
> --2011-09-23 08:45:27--  http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/<my snort oink 
> code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz
> Resolving www.snort.org... failed: Name or service not known.
> wget: unable to resolve host address `www.snort.org'
>  
> However if I ping www.snort.org from my Vyatta, I get the ip address resolved as 68.177.102.20
>  
> So in my new wget, I replaced www.snort.org with 68.177.102.20, as follows
>  
> vyatta@Vyatta1:~$ wget http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/<my oink code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz
> --2011-09-23 07:55:21--  http://68.177.102.20/pub-bin/oinkmaster.cgi/<my oink code>/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz
> Connecting to 68.177.102.20:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: 
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=<key>&Expires=1316764830&Signature=
> JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D [following]
> --2011-09-23 07:55:24--  http://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/sn
> ortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJJSHU7YNPLE5MKOQ&Expires=131676
> 4830&Signature=JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D
> Resolving s3.amazonaws.com... failed: Name or service not known.
> wget: unable to resolve host address `s3.amazonaws.com'
>  
> So I do a wget to www.snort.org and I get referred to s3.amazonaws.com
>  
> However s3.amazonaws.com is also not resolved.  So I try ping and get the s3.amazonaw.com ip address address and plug 
> that in to the above 2nd wget
>  
> wget 
> http://72.21.211.173/snort-org/www/rules/20110823/snortrules-snapshot-2905.tar.gz?<key>&Expires=1316764830&Signature=JUAQj%2Bn1Y65X3zmVFuq6ozSlPUo%3D
>  
> Then I get the following error:
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 2011-09-23 08:50:47 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>  
> Is this a problem with wget?  Or is this a problem with the configuration at www.snort.org?
>  
> Thanks and Regards,
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>  
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>  
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