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Subject: Re: [snort] DNS lookups too sensitve...or are these attacks?
From: James McLaughlin (katanamontrose.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 00:15:27 CST


Jim Forster wrote:

> These are either from the Vision ruleset, or from the 'addon' set on
> RapidNet. (That's why they were removed from the dist. set) :)
> Those are DNS queries, and the only reason it flagged them is that it was
> hitting the port which is monitored by the ruleset. - Nothing to worry
> about.
> I suggest using only content-based rules for backdoor activity, otherwise
> you'll need a 20gb drive to log all the falses nightly. :]
> Thanks...
>
>

Good to know ...thanks

Kat