RE: [Snort-users] Drifting timestamps

In the default barnyard.conf, there is a setting to convert all timestamps
to UTC

See the following:

# use localtime instead of UTC (*not* recommended because of timewarps)
#config localtime

This is the default for the configuration to use UTC. This might be it.

Shirkdog


>From: "Jacob Roberts" <jake_roberts@byu.edu>
>To: "Martin Roesch" <roesch@sourcefire.com>
>CC: <snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Drifting timestamps
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:18:27 -0600
>
>We check the timezones and clocks of all the systems involved. They are
>all correct and don't drift from day to day.
>
>They daily routine is to Stop barnyard, stop snort, drop the Mysql
>database(not just deleted the records), re-create the database, start
>snort, start barnyard.
>
>At the time everything is restarted the timestamps are in sync with
>correct time. As the system runs the timestamps drift
>
>We've narrowed it down to on of the following:
> 1. Something weird in Snort (probably not)
> 2. Something in Barnyard (we've no idea)
> 3. Something in Mysql. (We've added a timestamp column to the
>event table and it auto-inserted correct timestamps. So we don't thing
>its Mysql)
>
>Could this be a Barnyard thing?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Roesch [mailto:roesch@sourcefire.com]
>Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:10 AM
>To: Jacob Roberts
>Cc: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Drifting timestamps
>
>
>Hi Jake,
>
>That'd have to be the system clock on the sensor drifting, the
>timestamps that Snort uses is based on a call to gettimeofday() that
>libpcap performs when it receives a new packet. Snort has no internal
>time tracking mechanisms and in fact we take advantage of the fact that
>libpcap gives us time data "for free" to track time inside Snort.
>
> -Marty
>
>
>On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Jacob Roberts wrote:
>
> > We have a snort setup with barnyard which dumps in to a MySQL
> > database. We stop snort and barnyard each day, delete the database,
> > re-create it, then restart snort and barnyard.
> >
> > As snort runs through the day we start to see the timestamps of alerts
>
> > drift behind actual time. We aren't receiving an excessive amount of
> > alerts so we ruled out Barnyard not being able to keep up with the
> > alerts generated by Snort (I don't know if that would happen anyways)
> >
> > Has anyone had anything like this happen? We haven't been able to
> > track
> > it down and aren't sure what to do.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake Roberts
> > Brigham Young University
> > jake_roberts@byu.edu
> >
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