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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:40:30 -0600 (CST)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
To:        Peter Brezny <peter@black.purplecat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New to Snort.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103081436270.74800-100000@cody.jharris.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10103081233130.27988-100000@black.purplecat.net>

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Peter Brezny wrote:

> I'm new to using snort, and would like to know if this is the appropriate
> place to ask questions about the allert logs it generates.

	Send questions to snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net (mailing
	list).

> 
> For example, What does all this mean?
> 
> [**] MISC source port 53 to <1023 [**]
> 03/08-05:16:23.823888 193.75.177.1:53 -> 209.16.228.148:53
> UDP TTL:42 TOS:0x0 ID:54352 IpLen:20 DgmLen:61
> Len: 41

	That is a packet from your network to another machine.  It just
	happens to be a DNS packet (UDP) and the other numbers are just
	the packet header info.


> 
> am i in big trouble?

	No.  You can check out http://www.snort.org for more info.


Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
- Keep on routing in a Free World...  
  "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!"



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