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Re: [Snort-users] drowning in http inspect NON RFC character alerts

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Old 02-05-2004
Jeremy Hewlett
 
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Default Re: [Snort-users] drowning in http inspect NON RFC character alerts

On Wed, Feb 04, John York wrote:
> I'm getting 10-20,000 alerts/day on a small (<500 hosts) network. I
> tried adding no_alerts to my config as follows:


Snort v2.1.1-RC1 fixes the issue of no_alerts not quieting
non_rfc_chars. Also, non_rfc_chars is no longer enabled in the
default profiles (so if you want it, you need to specifically include
it).

> That didn't work. I also tried non_rfc_char { } in the hopes it
> wouldn't check for anything, but it bombs on start.


You should just remove that option completely if you don't want it.


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