Re: Duplicate rules & rule parser

[Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com>]

Also request you to see my comments/questions inline for the oddities and
let me know your views on it. 


Thanks and Regards,
Anshuman


Regards,
Anshuman Anil Deshmukh // Information Security-Analyst
Phone: 91-20-66041700, 91-20-66044700 (Extn. 6114)
Cell: 91-99230-51641

-----Original Message-----
From: JJ Cummings [mailto:cummingsj () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:47 AM
To: Anshuman Anil Deshmukh
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Duplicate rules & rule parser

Pulledpork is a working parser, when used correctly.

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> On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:41, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still hunting for a rule parser, does anyone have a working rule
parser? Also request you to see my comments/questions inline for the
oddities.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Anshuman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bates [mailto:peter.bates () ucl ac uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:22 PM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Duplicate rules & rule parser
>
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> Hello all
>
> > On 22/10/2013 14:14, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh wrote:
> > Since last week I am observing that I have duplicate copies of many rules
in my rule file. I am using pulledpork version 0.70 and hence all the rules
are merged into a single file. How do we remove all the duplicate rules? Any
rule parser that can be used or anybody having a script for that?
> > My pulledpork configuration - http://pastebin.com/E4Z368rx
>
> Oddities I can see:
>
> 1) You've defined a reg-rules rule_url and the community-rules.
> [Anshuman] Yes, I am a registered user. So in that case do you mean to say
that both community & registered user rules doesn't work together and hence
rather than using both of them, either one of them should be used?
> 2) You've put a fixed Snort version (2.9.5.0) into the reg-rules 
> rule_url [Anshuman] I request you to kindly send me the correct URL 
> meant for registered users
>
> 3) You've set snort_version to 2.9.5.0 - as long as Pulledpork can find
the binary, you should let it work it out for itself.
> [Anshuman] No further queries on this
>
> - --
> Peter Bates
> Senior Information Security Officer   Phone: +44(0)2076792049
> Information Services Division          Internal Ext: 32049
> University College London
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