The Snort Team is pleased to announce the availability of Snort v2.6.02. This release includes a number of improvements including the following:

• Added a DNS preprocessor and protocol decoder. This DNS preprocessor addresses vulnerabilites in Microsoft Windows DNS resolution defined in MS06-041.

Changes to your Snort configuration file are required to utilize this new functionality. Please review release notes at:

http://www.snort.org/docs/release_notes/release_notes_2602.txt

Snort binaries, tarballs, and a detail set of release notes are available at: http://www.snort.org/dl/

I really can’t wait until I can get my hands on the new Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit book from Syngress.