Re: [Snort-users] Error handling in Snort

Frank is correct, to follow up on what he said ...

What happens here is 32 and 981 get converted to a dotted quad. So 32
== 0.0.0.32 and 981 == 0.0.3.213.


Cheers,
Justin

On 7/24/07, Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 06:14 -0700, bahamin takhtaei wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I add some incorrect rules such as:
> >
> > "alert icmp HOME_NET any -> any any"
> > "alert tcp 32 any -> 981 any"
> >
> > to local.rules file. why I don't encounter any error or warning about
> > these,
> > when I run snort?
>
>
> Why should that create an error?
>
> You're not talking about the IP addresses in integer format, are you? If
> so, you might be surprised to know that other applications (like PHP)
> don't produce errors either. :) (Try gethostbyname("32"); and see what
> you get :)
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
> --
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> compared to a sewer. A big, fat pipe with a bunch of crap sloshing
> against your ports.
>
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