Sweet!
You know, if you guys want to tweak JJ some, you can ask him how
Windows support and proxy support are coming in Pulled Pork. I only
say this because I haven't got a "you are a bastard' email from him in
a while.
Matt
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Michael Steele <michaels@...> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> It's a lot simplier then that for Windows.
>
> ----------\
> Right click on My Computer.
> Click on Properties and select the Advanced tab.
> Click "Environment Variables".
> The "System Variables" dialog appears.
> Click New and add http_proxy as the 'Variable Name', with the appropriate
> proxy information in the 'Variable value' (see examples below).
>
> Set the http_proxy variable with the hostname or IP address of the proxy
> server:
> http_proxy=http://proxy.example.org
>
> If the proxy server requires a user name and password, include them in the
> following form:
> http_proxy=http://username:password@...>
>
> If the proxy server uses a port other than 80, include the port number:
> http_proxy=http://username:password@...>
> ----------/
>
> Kindest regards,
> Michael...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Olney [mailto:molney@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:20 PM
> To: Sadanand Ghagare
> Cc: Snort Users List
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] how to set proxy for oinkmaster
>
> Never done it...but I thought this might work:
>
> [molney@... oinkmaster-2.0]$ grep proxy *
> FAQ:Q10: How do I setup proxy configuration?
>
> And that let me find....
>
> "Q10: How do I setup proxy configuration?
>
> A10: If you download the snort rules archive from a web site (e.g.
> http://www.snort.org) and you are a behind an http proxy, you need to tell
> Oinkmaster to use that proxy or the download will fail. How you do
> that depends if you use wget (i.e. use use_external_bins=1, the
> default, in oinkmaster.conf) or libwww-perl (use_external_bins=0).
> You can read their man pages for complete configuration
> instructions, "man wget" or "man LWP::UserAgent".
>
> Quick instructions for the impatient:
>
> For wget, you can either edit the wget configuration file (usually
> /etc/wgetrc for global settings and ~/wgetrc for user settings) and
> set the http_proxy option. For example:
> http_proxy = http://your_proxy_host:3128:/
> (or http_proxy = http://user:password@...> if you
> are required to authenticate to the proxy). You can also set the
> http_proxy environment variable. If you want your proxy server not to
> return the file in its cache but rather get it from the web server
> again, add "header = Pragma: no-cache" to your wget configuration
> file.
>
> For libwww-perl, set the http_proxy environment variable as
> described above (i.e. to "http://your_proxy_host:3128:/" or
> "http://user:password@...>")."
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Sadanand Ghagare <sadanandgh@...>
> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I cofngiured oinkmaster for snort which is running on windows 2003,
>> SQL 2000 and IIS 6.
>> using oinkmaster, when I try to update rules, it gives error " 500
>> Can't connect to http://www.snort.org:80 (connect: Unknown error)"
>> We use proxy in our network and I havn't set proxy for oinkmaster
>> which might causing these issue.
>> anybody has faced these problem before or have any idea about these?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>>
>> Sadanand G.
>>
>>
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