[Snort-users] snort not reporting

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I installed snort 2.2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.6 together with ACID 0.9.6b23.
Everything went fine. When I start snort:

sudo snort -dvi -c /etc/snort/snort.conf

I get the following:

Running in IDS mode
Log directory = /var/log/snort

Initializing Network Interface ppp0

--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Decoding PPP on interface ppp0
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort.conf

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +
Initializing rule chains...
,-----------[Flow Config]----------------------
| Stats Interval: 0
| Hash Method: 2
| Memcap: 10485760
| Rows : 4099
| Overhead Bytes: 16400(%0.16)
`----------------------------------------------
No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:
Fragment timeout: 60 seconds
Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes
Fragment min_ttl: 0
Fragment ttl_limit: 5
Fragment Problems: 0
Self preservation threshold: 500
Self preservation period: 90
Suspend threshold: 1000
Suspend period: 30
Stream4 config:
Stateful inspection: ACTIVE
Session statistics: INACTIVE
Session timeout: 30 seconds
Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes
State alerts: INACTIVE
Evasion alerts: INACTIVE
Scan alerts: INACTIVE
Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE
MinTTL: 1
TTL Limit: 5
Async Link: 0
State Protection: 0
Self preservation threshold: 50
Self preservation period: 90
Suspend threshold: 200
Suspend period: 30
Stream4_reassemble config:
Server reassembly: INACTIVE
Client reassembly: ACTIVE
Reassembler alerts: ACTIVE
Zero out flushed packets: INACTIVE
flush_data_diff_size: 500
Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
Emergency Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
HttpInspect Config:
GLOBAL CONFIG
Max Pipeline Requests: 0
Inspection Type: STATELESS
Detect Proxy Usage: NO
IIS Unicode Map Filename: /etc/snort/unicode.map
IIS Unicode Map Codepage: 1252
DEFAULT SERVER CONFIG:
Ports: 80 8080 8180
Flow Depth: 300
Max Chunk Length: 500000
Inspect Pipeline Requests: YES
URI Discovery Strict Mode: NO
Allow Proxy Usage: NO
Disable Alerting: NO
Oversize Dir Length: 500
Only inspect URI: NO
Ascii: YES alert: NO
Double Decoding: YES alert: YES
%U Encoding: YES alert: YES
Bare Byte: YES alert: YES
Base36: OFF
UTF 8: OFF
IIS Unicode: YES alert: YES
Multiple Slash: YES alert: NO
IIS Backslash: YES alert: NO
Directory Traversal: YES alert: NO
Web Root Traversal: YES alert: YES
Apache WhiteSpace: YES alert: YES
IIS Delimiter: YES alert: YES
IIS Unicode Map: GLOBAL IIS UNICODE MAP CONFIG
Non-RFC Compliant Characters: NONE
rpc_decode arguments:
Ports to decode RPC on: 111 32771
alert_fragments: INACTIVE
alert_large_fragments: ACTIVE
alert_incomplete: ACTIVE
alert_multiple_requests: ACTIVE
telnet_decode arguments:
Ports to decode telnet on: 21 23 25 119
database: compiled support for ( mysql )
database: configured to use mysql
database: user = root
database: password is set
database: database name = snort
database: host = localhost
Node unique name is: 80.134.161.187
database: sensor name = 80.134.161.187
database: sensor id = 6
database: schema version = 106
database: using the "alert" facility
2180 Snort rules read...
2180 Option Chains linked into 176 Chain Headers
0 Dynamic rules
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +

Warning: flowbits key 'realplayer.playlist' is checked but not ever set.

+-----------------------[thresholding-
config]----------------------------------
| memory-cap : 1048576 bytes
+-----------------------[thresholding-
global]----------------------------------
| none
+-----------------------[thresholding-
local]-----------------------------------
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2275 type=Threshold tracking=dst count=5
seconds=60
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2924 type=Threshold tracking=src count=10
seconds=60
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2923 type=Threshold tracking=src count=10
seconds=60
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2523 type=Both tracking=dst count=10
seconds=10
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2496 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2494 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60
| gen-id=1 sig-id=2495 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60
+-----------------------
[suppression]------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
Rule application order: ->activation->dynamic->alert->pass->log

--== Initialization Complete ==--

-*> Snort! <*-
Version 2.2.0 (Build 30)
By Martin Roesch (roesch@sourcefire.com, www.snort.org)

However after a while when I control-c :

^C

================================================== ======================
=======

Snort received 8244 packets
Analyzed: 8244(100.000%)
Dropped: 0(0.000%)
================================================== ======================
=======
Breakdown by protocol:
TCP: 0 (0.000%)
UDP: 0 (0.000%)
ICMP: 0 (0.000%)
ARP: 0 (0.000%)
EAPOL: 0 (0.000%)
IPv6: 0 (0.000%)
IPX: 0 (0.000%)
OTHER: 0 (0.000%)
DISCARD: 0 (0.000%)
================================================== ======================
=======
Action Stats:
ALERTS: 0
LOGGED: 0
PASSED: 0
================================================== ======================
=======
Final Flow Statistics
,----[ FLOWCACHE STATS ]----------
Memcap: 10485760 Overhead Bytes 16400 used(%0.156403)/blocks (16400/1)
Overhead blocks: 1 Could Hold: (0)
IPV4 count: 0 frees: 0 low_time: 0, high_time: 0, diff: 0h:00:00s
finds: 0 reversed: 0(%0.000000)
find_sucess: 0 find_fail: 0 percent_success: (%0.000000) new_flows:
0
database: Closing connection to database "p"
Snort exiting

Nothing gets reported. I have configured snort.conf like this:

var HOME_NET any
and
var EXTERNAL_NET any
and
output database: alert, mysql, user=root password=<mypassword>
dbname=snort host=localhost

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Allan
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I installed snort 2.2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.6 together with ACID
0.9.6b23. Everything went fine. When I start snort:


sudo snort -dvi -c /etc/snort/snort.conf


I get the following:


<bold>Running in IDS mode

Log directory = /var/log/snort


Initializing Network Interface ppp0


--== Initializing Snort ==--

Initializing Output Plugins!

Decoding PPP on interface ppp0

Initializing Preprocessors!

Initializing Plug-ins!

Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort.conf


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +

Initializing rule chains...

,-----------[Flow Config]----------------------

| Stats Interval: 0

| Hash Method: 2

| Memcap: 10485760

| Rows : 4099

| Overhead Bytes: 16400(%0.16)

`----------------------------------------------

No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:

Fragment timeout: 60 seconds

Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes

Fragment min_ttl: 0

Fragment ttl_limit: 5

Fragment Problems: 0

Self preservation threshold: 500

Self preservation period: 90

Suspend threshold: 1000

Suspend period: 30

Stream4 config:

Stateful inspection: ACTIVE

Session statistics: INACTIVE

Session timeout: 30 seconds

Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes

State alerts: INACTIVE

Evasion alerts: INACTIVE

Scan alerts: INACTIVE

Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE

MinTTL: 1

TTL Limit: 5

Async Link: 0

State Protection: 0

Self preservation threshold: 50

Self preservation period: 90

Suspend threshold: 200

Suspend period: 30

Stream4_reassemble config:

Server reassembly: INACTIVE

Client reassembly: ACTIVE

Reassembler alerts: ACTIVE

Zero out flushed packets: INACTIVE

flush_data_diff_size: 500

Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433

Emergency Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433

HttpInspect Config:

GLOBAL CONFIG

Max Pipeline Requests: 0

Inspection Type: STATELESS

Detect Proxy Usage: NO

IIS Unicode Map Filename: /etc/snort/unicode.map

IIS Unicode Map Codepage: 1252

DEFAULT SERVER CONFIG:

Ports: 80 8080 8180

Flow Depth: 300

Max Chunk Length: 500000

Inspect Pipeline Requests: YES

URI Discovery Strict Mode: NO

Allow Proxy Usage: NO

Disable Alerting: NO

Oversize Dir Length: 500

Only inspect URI: NO

Ascii: YES alert: NO

Double Decoding: YES alert: YES

%U Encoding: YES alert: YES

Bare Byte: YES alert: YES

Base36: OFF

UTF 8: OFF

IIS Unicode: YES alert: YES

Multiple Slash: YES alert: NO

IIS Backslash: YES alert: NO

Directory Traversal: YES alert: NO

Web Root Traversal: YES alert: YES

Apache WhiteSpace: YES alert: YES

IIS Delimiter: YES alert: YES

IIS Unicode Map: GLOBAL IIS UNICODE MAP CONFIG

Non-RFC Compliant Characters: NONE

rpc_decode arguments:

Ports to decode RPC on: 111 32771

alert_fragments: INACTIVE

alert_large_fragments: ACTIVE

alert_incomplete: ACTIVE

alert_multiple_requests: ACTIVE

telnet_decode arguments:

Ports to decode telnet on: 21 23 25 119

database: compiled support for ( mysql )

database: configured to use mysql

database: user = root

database: password is set

database: database name = snort

database: host = localhost

Node unique name is: 80.134.161.187

database: sensor name = 80.134.161.187

database: sensor id = 6

database: schema version = 106

database: using the "alert" facility

2180 Snort rules read...

2180 Option Chains linked into 176 Chain Headers

0 Dynamic rules

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +


Warning: flowbits key 'realplayer.playlist' is checked but not ever
set.


+-----------------------[thresholding-config]----------------------------------

| memory-cap : 1048576 bytes

+-----------------------[thresholding-global]----------------------------------

| none

+-----------------------[thresholding-local]-----------------------------------

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2275 type=Threshold tracking=dst count=5
seconds=60

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2924 type=Threshold tracking=src count=10
seconds=60

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2923 type=Threshold tracking=src count=10
seconds=60

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2523 type=Both tracking=dst count=10
seconds=10

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2496 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2494 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60

| gen-id=1 sig-id=2495 type=Both tracking=dst count=20
seconds=60

+-----------------------[suppression]------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rule application order: ->activation->dynamic->alert->pass->log


--== Initialization Complete ==--


-*> Snort! <<*-

Version 2.2.0 (Build 30)

By Martin Roesch (roesch@sourcefire.com, www.snort.org)</bold>


However after a while when I control-c :


<bold>^C


================================================== =============================


Snort received 8244 packets

Analyzed: 8244(100.000%)

Dropped: 0(0.000%)

================================================== =============================

Breakdown by protocol:

TCP: 0 (0.000%)

UDP: 0 (0.000%)

ICMP: 0 (0.000%)

ARP: 0 (0.000%)

EAPOL: 0 (0.000%)

IPv6: 0 (0.000%)

IPX: 0 (0.000%)

OTHER: 0 (0.000%)

DISCARD: 0 (0.000%)

================================================== =============================

Action Stats:

ALERTS: 0

LOGGED: 0

PASSED: 0

================================================== =============================

Final Flow Statistics

,----[ FLOWCACHE STATS ]----------

Memcap: 10485760 Overhead Bytes 16400 used(%0.156403)/blocks (16400/1)
Overhead blocks: 1 Could Hold: (0)

IPV4 count: 0 frees: 0 low_time: 0, high_time: 0, diff: 0h:00:00s

finds: 0 reversed: 0(%0.000000)

find_sucess: 0 find_fail: 0 percent_success: (%0.000000)
new_flows: 0

database: Closing connection to database "p"

Snort exiting

</bold>

Nothing gets reported. I have configured snort.conf like this:


<bold>var HOME_NET any

and

var EXTERNAL_NET any

and

output database: alert, mysql, user=root password=<<mypassword>
dbname=snort host=localhost</bold>


Can anyone help?


Thanks,

Allan
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