[Snort-users] RE: (Off List) Two items that are hard to digest...

I wasn't attempting to gripe about either you personally or those on the Snort-users list for not answering one particular post. After all, the
"free support" is really only at everyone's personal time anyway. So, no
apology from you is necessary.

My comment about the lack of answer was only to say that I'm not moving anywhere near Snort 2.x any time soon. So that make me one of those
"hundreds if not thousands". :)

• Christopher

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Steele [mailto:michaels@silicondefense.com] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:06 PM
To: 'L. Christopher Luther'
Cc: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: (Off List) Two items that are hard to digest...

Chris,

There are hundreds if not thousands of Snort 1.9.1 users out there that can't update to 2.0 at this time, and it doesn't matter what platform they are on. Sure there is a fix for this Stream 4 vulnerability, but in turn that opens up another vulnerability. So what are they to do?

All I can do as one person is let my concerns known and try to get some constructive feedback so others out there know there is a definite problem, and that they are not alone.

I absolutely have no ax to grind with anyone.

I try my best to help anyone that I can. If you posted a message in the Snort Users group and I failed to reply then I'm truly sorry. I get a LOT of personal email for support and that is a really good way to contact me. -Michael

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From: L. Christopher Luther [mailto:CLuther@Xybernaut.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:07 AM
To: 'Michael Steele'

Michael,  

I'm usually in 100% agreement (well okay, maybe only 90%) with all that you
say on this list.  But after watching all the back-n-forth traffic generated
by your two questions, it would appear that you have some type of "axe to
grind" with someone(s) on the Snort team.  Is the case?  

I am in agreement with your desire to patch 1.9.1.  Then again when I tried
to get my two sensors up to 1.9.x, the Win2K sensor just wouldn't take 1.9.x
install, and when I posted to this list I didn't even get a single response
of assistance with this one particular issue.  So I'm now left with one
1.9.x WinNT4 sensor and one 1.8.7 Win2K sensor.  I'm not even going to play
with Snort 2.x until I have *lots* of time on my hands 'cause I don't expect
the Win2K sensor to act any better with Snort 2.x.  

- Christopher 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Steele [mailto:michaels@silicondefense.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:46 AM 
To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net 
Subject: [Snort-users] Two items that are hard to digest... 

All, 
Questions: 
1. Why is Snort 1.9.1 not being patched? IMHO this is a big mistake as some 
users are not ready for 2.0.x yet. 
2. Why was there a 2.0.0 Release announcement when in fact there is no such 
release? If you download the 2.0.0 release you get Snort 2.0.0 RC5 b72. 
-Michael 
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