From: Michael Steele (michaelswinsnort.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 02:00:07 CST

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Del,

Looks like you need to be resolving your HOME_NET variable. Are you using
the stock set of rules from the same archive as your Snort?

Check the 12th rule down in bad-traffic.rules and see if there is a syntax
error? Try hashing it out and see if it will continue.

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> Hi,
> Installed 2.1.0 , and snort works without rules.
> When using supplied snort.conf rule files containing $HOME_NET give this
> error. What am I doing wrong?
>
> ERROR: ERROR /etc/snort/bad-traffic.rules(12): Couldn't resolve hostname
> HOME_NET
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> Thanks,
> Del

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