[Bro] Bro not seeing certain FTP transfers

James Lay jlay at slave-tothe-box.net
Thu Apr 11 10:30:07 PDT 2013


On 2013-04-11 11:25, Castle, Shane wrote:
> I wonder if it's because the conversation ended with an RST - the
> originator sent a FIN and got back RST. I assume the line you quoted
> corresponds with the actual transfer.
>
> --
> Shane Castle
> Data Security Mgr, Boulder County IT
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bro-bounces at bro.org [mailto:bro-bounces at bro.org] On Behalf Of 
> James Lay
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:09
> To: bro at bro-ids.org
> Subject: [Bro] Bro not seeing certain FTP transfers
>
> Topic says it...here's what I have from conn.log:
>
> 2013-04-08T06:00:25-0600        rTIHfQrsHgh     x.x.x.x    26519
> x.x.x.x   21      tcp     ftp     22.117093       1141    4128    
> RSTR
> T       0       ShAdDaFr        111     5601    71      6972    
> (empty)
>
> And from my other logs:
> Apr  8 06:00:31 x.x.x.x FTP connection from interface:x.x.x.x/26519 
> to
> x.x.x.x/21, user Stored file filename
>
> ftp.log has no record at all of either the filename or the IP 
> address.
> I am my own ISP and I peer with two other ISP's over two separate
> interfaces, meaning a packet can go out one interface, but come in 
> the
> other.  I'm running bro with:
>
> bro -i eth4 -i eth5 local Site::local_nets += { ipspace/mask,
> ipspace/mask }
>
> Any hints on where to look for a solution to this?  I suspect I'm 
> going
> to end up bridging these interfaces.  Thank you.
>
> James

Indeed it does.  Thanks Shane.

James



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