Re: How rules fire question.

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Good to hear you got it squared away.


On May 6, 2013, at 1:19 PM, AT&T.Net <coppage () att net> wrote:

> Thank Joe,
>      In looking how this box was set up, pulled pork is being used on a central server but one of the scripts being 
> used to push the rules and that file to all the sensors was pulling from the wrong location and therefore the correct 
> Sid file was not being pushed. 
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Sent from mobile device via my thumbs. 
>
> On May 6, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
>
> > On May 6, 2013, at 10:59 AM, "AT&T.Net" <coppage () att net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, 
> > >       My snort is giving me an alert for example. Snort Alert [1:24889:0]. When I look at my snort.rules file there 
> > > is rev 1 but not a rev 0. If the last number is referencing the rev, why would it have fired on a non existing rev? 
> > >  I've searched my old archived rules on the server and other rules and don't have that SID with a rev 0. 
> >
> > That rule is at rev:1.  We start all rules at Rev 1.  
> >
> > So, I am thinking two things
> >
> > #1 -- You aren't using pulledpork to manage your downloads (which as part of it's download and managing process, it 
> > creates the sid-msg.map for you)
> > #2 -- Your barnyard2 instance isn't reading the sid-msg.map file that pulledpork generates.
> >
> > --
> > Joel Esler
> > Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> > OpenSource Community Manager
> > Sourcefire

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