I've wrote a bro script using the Input::add_table function to look up IPs and their corresponding hostnames and insert them into the conn_id record - so that I have id.source_name & id.destination_name in every log file. This works fine except when there are tunnel events and it crashes bro with a segmentation error. I suspect this is something to do with the encapsulation id but I don't really know. I know I could add the src & dest names to the Info record for each type but that would mean modifying every type. Is what I'm trying to do fundamentally incorrect or is there a bug in the tunnel code causing the crash ? Or is there a better way to do this
export {
global host_table: table[addr] of Val = table();
}
redef record conn_id += {
src_name: string &optional &log;
dest_name: string &optional &log;
};
const host_file = “hosts.txt”
event bro_init() &priority=20
{
Input::add_table([$source=host_file, $name =“host_stream”, $idx=Idx, $val=Val, $destination=host_table]);
Input::remove(“host_stream”);
}
event new_connection( c: connection ) {
if( c$id$orig_h in host_table ) {
c$id$src_name = host_table[c$id$orig_h]$host;
}
if( c$id$resp_h in host_table ) {
c$id$dest_name = host_table[c$id$resp_h]$host;
}
}
Unfortunately you don't want to extend the conn_id
record. It is used internally in a number of ways which this change would impact. I would extend the Conn::Info
record and add the data there.
Your script was missing some pieces and I wanted to make the answer more usable for people in the future so I filled out the missing areas:
@load base/protocols/conn
module MyHostNames;
export {
## File to load hostnames from.
const host_file = "hosts.txt" &redef;
}
type Idx: record {
host: addr;
};
type Val: record {
hostname: string;
};
global host_table: table[addr] of Val = table();
redef record Conn::Info += {
orig_name: string &optional &log;
resp_name: string &optional &log;
};
event bro_init() &priority=5
{
Input::add_table([$source=host_file,
$name="myhostnames_stream",
$idx=Idx,
$val=Val,
$destination=host_table]);
Input::remove("myhostnames_stream");
}
event connection_state_remove(c: connection)
{
if ( c$id$orig_h in host_table )
{
c$conn$orig_name = host_table[c$id$orig_h]$hostname;
}
if ( c$id$resp_h in host_table )
{
c$conn$resp_name = host_table[c$id$resp_h]$hostname;
}
}
I used an input file that looks like this (keep in mind some literal tabs in this data between columns!):
#fields host hostname
#types addr string
1.2.3.4 special-host