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Re: Fwd: Snort blocking connection but not logging the drop


From: Cody Brugh <cbrugh () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:53:13 -0400

What all is the normalizer used for?  Will turning it off make me vulnerable?

Just trying to understand what that mechanism does. 

Thanks,
Cody

On May 12, 2014, at 12:02 PM, "Russ Combs (rucombs)" <rucombs () cisco com> wrote:

The normalizer is blocking packets:

             tcp::block: 272

You can prevent that by commenting out the normalize_tcp line from your conf.

You can debug it a little further by enabling all preprocessor rules by adding / uncommenting them in your conf or by 
adding this to your conf:

    config autogenerate_preprocessor_decoder_rules

Then you should see why the normalizer is blocking.  When I do that with the pcap you sent I see a bad TCP reset.

From: Cody Brugh [cbrugh () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 11:52 AM
To: Russ Combs (rucombs)
Cc: Joel Esler (jesler); snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Fwd: Snort blocking connection but not logging the drop

Attached is the shutdown stats.  Let me know what you find/suggest.

Thanks,
Cody


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Russ Combs (rucombs) <rucombs () cisco com> wrote:

From: Cody Brugh [cbrugh () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 11:18 AM

To: Russ Combs (rucombs)
Cc: Joel Esler (jesler); snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Fwd: Snort blocking connection but not logging the drop

How do I gather those stats?  Are you looking for this?  http://manual.snort.org/node20.html

* Not those.  Do a clean start, run your traffic, and then stop Snort or give it a usr1 signal and check the output. 
 Check console or syslog depending on how you run.

Thanks,
Cody


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Russ Combs (rucombs) <rucombs () cisco com> wrote:
What are your shutdown / usr1 stats?  Do they show normalizer blocks?

From: Cody Brugh [cbrugh () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:29 AM
To: Russ Combs (rucombs)
Cc: Joel Esler (jesler); snort-devel () lists sourceforge net

Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Fwd: Snort blocking connection but not logging the drop

Can you confirm you received my PCAP file?  I would really like to get this issue resolved so I can work with their 
API.

Let me know the status please.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Cody Brugh <cbrugh () gmail com> wrote:
Attached is the pcap of the stamps.com packet capture... can someone check and see what I should do?

Thanks,
Cody


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Russ Combs (rucombs) <rucombs () cisco com> wrote:

From: Joel Esler (jesler)
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 8:51 PM
To: Cody Brugh
Cc: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Fwd: Snort blocking connection but not logging the drop

Can you send your configuration file, and a packet capture of the session?

* Can you also send your usr1 / shutdown stats?


--
Joel Esler
Sent from my iPhone

On May 8, 2014, at 20:49, "Cody Brugh" <cbrugh () gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

Our dev team is trying to work with stamps.com API however our in-line snort box is blocking the return 
connection for unknown reasons.  When I turn off snort the connection flows perfectly.  Looking at snorby I see 
no event of the connection being dropped.  I've included the command we are running from a internal server that 
is behind the snort.  I also included the tcpdump from this same server for the connection.

wget https://216.52.211.91/label/health.aspx
--2014-05-08 20:37:33--  https://216.52.211.91/label/health.aspx
Connecting to 216.52.211.91:443... connected.


20:37:33.443962 IP 10.2.2.1.52661 > 216.52.211.91.443: Flags [F.], seq 3298140140, ack 2463587275, win 8208, 
options [nop,nop,TS val 2824990869 ecr 3731400338], length 0
20:37:33.444478 IP 216.52.211.91.443 > 10.2.2.1.52661: Flags [R.], seq 1, ack 1, win 8208, length 0
20:37:33.989510 IP 10.2.2.1.59800 > 216.52.211.91.443: Flags [S], seq 3306929108, win 65535, options [mss 
1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,TS val 2824990923 ecr 0], length 0
20:37:34.071548 IP 216.52.211.91.443 > 10.2.2.1.59800: Flags [S.], seq 361712399, ack 3306929109, win 4140, 
options [mss 1380,nop,wscale 3,nop,nop,TS val 3731482846 ecr 2824990923,sackOK,eol], length 0
20:37:34.071610 IP 10.2.2.1.59800 > 216.52.211.91.443: Flags [.], ack 1, win 8208, options [nop,nop,TS val 
2824990932 ecr 3731482846], length 0
20:37:34.071750 IP 10.2.2.1.59800 > 216.52.211.91.443: Flags [P.], ack 1, win 8208, options [nop,nop,TS val 
2824990932 ecr 3731482846], length 139
20:37:34.154367 IP 216.52.211.91.443 > 10.2.2.1.59800: Flags [.], ack 140, win 517, options [nop,nop,TS val 
3731482928 ecr 2824990932], length 1368
20:37:34.154462 IP 216.52.211.91.443 > 10.2.2.1.59800: Flags [.], ack 140, win 517, options [nop,nop,TS val 
3731482928 ecr 2824990932], length 1368
20:37:34.154490 IP 10.2.2.1.59800 > 216.52.211.91.443: Flags [.], ack 2737, win 7877, options [nop,nop,TS val 
2824990940 ecr 3731482928], length 0

20:37:44.153373 IP 216.52.211.91.443 > 10.2.2.1.59800: Flags [R.], seq 4233:4288, ack 140, win 534, length 55

any help or suggestions would be great, I would like to disable the rule that is blocking this connection but 
like I said I cannot see which rule blocked it.

Thanks.
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