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snortintrusion-detection
chinmay singh
chinmay singh

Reputation: 163

unable to load rules while testing snort in test mode on windows8

i installed snort and while running it following error appeared on windows8

    --== Initializing Snort ==--

Initializing Output Plugins! Initializing Preprocessors! Initializing Plug-ins! Parsing Rules file "c:\snort\etc\snort.conf" ERROR: c:\snort\etc\snort.conf(51) Missing argument to DNS_SERVERS Fatal Error, Quitting.. Could not create the registry key.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 901

Answers (1)

user3483376
user3483376

Reputation: 11

Your answer is probably that you do not have anything defined in DNS_SERVERS variable in your snort.conf file.

Please post your C:\snort\etc\snort.conf file, but I suspect if you edit the line that probably says:

ipvar DNS_SERVERS

to something like

ipvar DNS_SERVERS $HOME_NET

It will work, or at least it will get further along your initialization process

Upvotes: 1

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