RE: [logs] NBS

From: Marcus J. Ranum (mjr@private)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 18:07:08 PDT


Williams Jon wrote:
> I'd like to be able to show, for example, those
>things that have more than one hit but less than 100 in the last hour,
>for example.  Or maybe a report that shows the things with one hit
>between 17:00 and 23:00 last night.  Stuff like that.

I don't have ranges built in but last night I added a
-T d:h:m:s
option to nbsdump; it's on my site for download.

The only thing that bothers me a bit about adding
stuff like ranges and so on is that puts me on
the slippery slope that leads to SQL. :)  I already
looked at adding time value(s) to all the indexes,
to make it faster to retrieve on time(s) but then the
updates have to update the trees as well as the
record file. :(

>Hmm.  I wonder if there's a way to set this up to detect Internet
>clients that connect to a variety of servers one time each???

Hmmm.. You could store client:server, then dump it
in order of lowest to highest, using the primary
key as the sort, then stick it through a perl script
(I'd offer an example but I am a terrible perler) that
counts instances where the first token is the same.
Then sort on the result.

I'm figuring that the tool is going to undergo a period
of experimentation; once we've got a better idea
what it can/should do then I will either rewrite it
or write what it should have been.

Back in the NFR days we had this thing called
"histogram" which was kind of like NBS but it
maintained a matrix; you could have it alert
when a new pairing was added, or count when
the value at the nexus of the pair was seen. It
was a bit hard to make that really fast, though
mostly that was an implementation detail. Braden
and DeSchon's "NNstat" had a similar data
structure and I regularly used it to detect
port scans.

Glad you're enjoying NBS! :)

mjr.  

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