Re: Snort Rules Availability

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com>]

July 5, 2007.

http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi?page=7


On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Seth wrote:

> Patrick passed away?  Did his happen recently?
>
> -Seth
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 9:56 AM, Mike Guiterman  
> <mike.guiterman () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > We plan on opening applications for our annual Scholarship program on
> > Feb. 13.   An announcement will be sent out when the application is
> > available online. This year's scholarship program will be in memory  
> > of
> > Patrick and all of his contributions to the community.
> >
> > John is correct.  There is a 30 day delay from the original release  
> > date
> > for each VRT updates.  After 30 days new rules are available free of
> > charge to registered users of Snort.org.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > John Pritchard wrote:
> > > There was a VRT release today 2008-02-05. Currently, if you don't
> > > "subscribe" there is a 30 day delay before you have access to the  
> > > new
> > > rules..... Hence, the 2008-03-05 availability date...
> > > http://www.snort.org/vrt/why_subscribe.html
> > >
> > > On Feb 5, 2008 10:17 PM, CoryC <oakleeman () yahoo com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a question about rule availability. The current
> > > > version of Snort available for download is 2.8.0.1 and
> > > > there is a version 2.8 ruleset available for
> > > > subscribers but only a version 2.7 ruleset available
> > > > for registered users.
> > > >
> > > > I realize that there CURRENT rulesets for both
> > > > subscriber and registered users but have read several
> > > > times to not use CURRENT rulesets on production
> > > > systems.
> > > >
> > > > I also remember reading the first of January that the
> > > > subscriber rulesets were available to subscribers only
> > > > until January 17 or so. Now I see that it says the
> > > > rules are available to subscribers only until March 5,
> > > > 2008 but still don't see any version 2.8 rules for
> > > > registered users.
> > > >
> > > > What is the specific delay between subscriber and
> > > > registered ruleset availability?
> > > >
> > > > Mike, any word on the Patrick Harper scholarship?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
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