Snort Binaries - Where did they go?

Does anyone know why the binaries for snort have been removed from their site?

www.snort.org/dl/binaries/linux


:(

Any info would be most appreciated.

--TH13

Hrmm... a mystery indeed. Have you sent a note to snort.org asking them?

I'm not sure why they removed them... but there are other places that have them too.
I know its better to get them from the source... as anyone could have modded/trojaned them....

http://security.testtubebabies.org/n...nort/binaries/
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...hp?query=snort

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...snort+binaries

Yeah, I have found them all over the place but as you have mentioned, I'd rather get them from snort. I see that you can get the tarball but compiling and installing snort that way is a total pain in the ass. I'd rather use the RPM.

I will e-mail snort to see what is up however they certainly aren't my best friends (Phish, you know why ;) )

Thanks!

--TH13

Er.... Hoss: Is there something we should know?????????

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I will e-mail snort to see what is up however they certainly aren't my best friends (Phish, you know why )

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Yeah, pretty soon you'll know why. Keep your eyes on BugTraq.

Uh-oh, sounds like the horse finally broke the pig. :)

-Maestr0

The binaries haven't been there for a while now. I have been downloading and installing snort from source several times in my lab over the past 2 weeks, playing....

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Uh-oh, sounds like the horse finally broke the pig.

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LOL, I don't think I can take credit for breaking it, I think that award goes to the developers. ;)

If you are desperate for the binary you can run to a book store and get the book that snort.org put out. I like it and bought it for fun and to increase my knowledge of the inner workings of snort it's self. I could not find alot of cohesive detail that wasn't wrapped up and disguised in someone elses ego. ;) I tend to do that myself, but I bought "Snort 2.O Intrusion Detection" ISBN 1-931836-74-4 (comes with all software) and "Intrusion Detection with Snort - Advanced IDS techniques using Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP and ACID" ISBN 0-13-140733-3 So far so good but I just bought them a few hours ago at lunch time. Already learned a lot but I am a novice at snort. A nOOb.

Interesting, according to their book... "...depending on the release number and release date, there are not always binaries available..". So when there is a new release, it takes the binaries a while to catch up and they only release the binaries for current versions? Anyway, there is a new release today! Just when i get 2.0.0 working great... They also reference that www.rpnfind.net link in the official snort book as well, so I would mostly trust it.

Going to make a new install for 2.0.0.1 now. ;)

Note this line from snort.org "lots of NEW rules and tons of rule documentation"