[sniffer] Re: Transition to new deliver server completed. Watch Out For The Minor Changes!

Hello george, Friday, January 5, 2007, 9:48:40 AM, you wrote: Pete, Mine is also failing on a connection time out. We are working on a firewall issue that was discovered late yesterday. As a temporary measure you should be able to connect w/ ftp to: tempftp.armresearch.com -- Once we have

[sniffer] Re: Transition to new deliver server completed. Watch Out For The Minor Changes!

Hello Chris, Friday, January 5, 2007, 2:34:48 AM, you wrote: Pete, Every so often I end up with thousands of .snf, .xxx and .que files in my sniffer directory, and it stops filtering spam. Any ideas?? You should never find thousands of .snf files... The other files are job files -- each

[sniffer] Update rate increased by 16.6%.

Hello Sniffer Folks, Now that the new delivery server is in place and functioning properly, we have re-tuned the rulebase compilers to deliver updated rulebase files 16.6% more quickly on average. This means that you will receive updated rules more frequently throughout the day and as a result

[sniffer] Re: FTP server / firewall issues - Resolved.

Hi Pete, Why the change? FTP is more efficient for transferring files than HTTP. Can we request longer support for FTP to allow adequate time for everyone to schedule, test, and make the change? I remember trying dHTTP initially when this was set up, but it wasn't working reliably, plus FTP is

[sniffer] Re: FTP server / firewall issues - Resolved.

Now when I run snf2check.exe the rule base fails. Tried to download several time now. using wget and this has been working for years. Suggestions? Darin Cox wrote: Hi Pete, Why the change? FTP is more efficient for transferring files than HTTP. Can we request longer support for FTP to

[sniffer] Re: FTP server / firewall issues - Resolved.

Hello Darin, Friday, January 5, 2007, 6:23:22 PM, you wrote: Hi Pete, Why the change? Many reasons. HTTP is simpler to deploy and debug, simpler to scale, less of a security problem, etc... Also, the vast majority of folks get their rulebase files from us with HTTP - probably for many of

[sniffer] Re: FTP server / firewall issues - Resolved.

Hi Matt, Hmmm you're right. I have heard of FTP configuration issues through some firewalls, though I haven't seen the problem myself. Good point. Thanks for commenting. And yes, the compression (though it's not being used now) would obviously be of significant benefit. Darin.

[sniffer] Re: FTP server / firewall issues - Resolved.

Hello Darin, Friday, January 5, 2007, 11:22:54 PM, you wrote: Thanks, Pete. Appreciate you taking the time to explain what's happening in more detail. I'm curious as to why FTP is more difficult than HTTP to debug, deploy, secure, and scale, though. I tend to think of them on equal