Hello Charles,

> On 7 Mar 2022, at 12:26, Charles Brown <cab_77573(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Did a fresh install of core165 Development Build: next/cad86575
> 
> 1) Private Network is ‘Hostile’ – should it be?

No, it shouldn’t.

> Initially, I had no access to red zone.  All traffic was getting DROP_HOSTILE.
> My test setup has gateway through a 192.168 private network. Could not ping my 192.168 gateway without disabling the “drop hostile” feature. Somehow I thought that private network range would not be considered ‘hostile’.

Do you have some log files so I can look at what matched?

What build are you running?

-Michael

> 
> 2) Web page ids.cgi stops loading after header
> The page header down through "Intrusion Prevention System <?>" is displayed and then stops -- nothing else on the page
> Log in httpd error shows as:
>   "Unable to read file /var/ipfire/suricata/ignored at /var/ipfire/general-functions.pl line 883. "
> I went to the directory and created the 'ignored' file and chowned it to nobody:nobody.
> That allowed the page to complete loading
> 
> -cab
> 
>