Re: Snort 2.8.6.1 Now Available

[Eoin Miller <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com>]

  On 7/23/2010 6:17 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> the problem is the link itself... to be more direct...
> 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...
>
> while the above link on the downloads page does not tell us the actual 
> name of
> the source code tarball, this link does and it does get redirected to 
> that cloud
> thingee ;)
>
> hxxp://www.snort.org/ports/snort-current/snort-2.8.6.1.tar.gz
>
> now if someone can figure out why sometimes it spews xml garbage in 
> reply to the
> http request instead of spitting out the binary tarball, i'm sure that 
> many
> would be grateful and their scripts would be simpler ;)
>
> i understand that the above link also works via ftp but i've not 
> tested that as
> of yet... if it is true, then it will simplify and make things much 
> better ;)

They moved hosting of the code into the Amazon EC2 cloud for the (to 
alleviate the use of bandwidth at their house I assume). Code is also 
now transported over SSL to boot, however wget appears to whine about 
something. Just do this to grab your source:

#wget http://www.snort.org/downloads/116 -O snort_current.tar.gz 
--no-check-certificate

Problem solved.

-- Eoin

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